Similar to many aristocratic women of the time, Thiroux d'Arconville also collected rare plants and stones.

While she enjoyed these activities, she wanted to learn more so she set up a laboratory in her home and stocked it with chemistry equipment.

[4] Women had long been a part of the literary community in France; critics thought this indicative of the advanced French society.

[7]: 178 Thiroux d'Arconville's desire for learning and her love for British culture inspired her to begin translating various English works, on a variety of subjects, to French.

[1]: 30 It has been said that Thiroux d'Arconville suffered from insomnia and worked on multiple projects at a time to prevent herself from growing bored.

Advice from a Father to his Daughter was a translation of a text on morality written by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

Thiroux d'Arconville's usage of the Bible in her discussion on the history of chemistry was common for scholars of this time period; science was seen as a way to better understand God's creations.

[1]: 30  In the preface, recognizing the limits to her knowledge on the subject, she redirected readers to other text that provided more in depth information.

[1]: 30 It is thought that the images were created under the direction of Jean-Joseph Sue with added input by Thiroux d'Arconville while being financed by her.

The skeletons seemed to have been modeled after her; they had a large, broad pelvis and narrow lower limbs, thought to have been caused by corsets Thiroux d'Arconville wore throughout her life.

[2]: 183 While working on these various texts, Thiroux d'Arconville also started studying putrefaction, or how plant and animal matter rot.

For ten years, she recorded the results of experiments involving rotting food under various conditions to see if putrefaction could be delayed.

[7]: 176–178  She again remained anonymous, with one reviewer writing that the author of the essay "must be a highly distinguished physician with a deep knowledge of both chemistry and medicine".

In the essay, Thiroux d'Arconville remarked that her work might have enhanced Pringle's text and that she was very careful when she conducted her experiments.

[2] The year after publishing her study on putrefaction, Thiroux d'Arconville and her family moved from their Paris residence to an apartment in the Marais District.

For a period of this time Thiroux d'Arconville stopped writing due to the death of her husband's older brother and her brother-in-law.

[10] In one such memoir, written in 1801, Thiroux d'Arconville tried to make sense of her experiences through a collection of "thoughts, reflections, and anecdotes".

[2]: 185  Six months after her son died, Thiroux d'Arconville was allowed to return to her home along with her sister, sister-in-law and grandson.

It is thought that her decision to remain anonymous was self-preservation; a way to keep her personal life as a mother and a wife distinct from her writings.

According to scholars, Thiroux d'Arconville's body of work showcased her feelings on what it means to be a high status female author during the eighteenth century in France.