Books by Durant Rose include Pine Needles, or Sonnets and Songs (1884),[1] Dante: A Dramatic Poem (1892),[2] and A Ducal Skeleton (1899).

[4] She wrote short stories for newspapers including the New York Times,[5] and more than a dozen plays, among them a comedietta called Our Family Motto, or Noblesse Oblige that was produced in London in 1889 at a hospital fundraiser,[6] She acted in French in her own play, Un Héros de la Vendée, in London in 1889.

[10][11] The Washington, D.C.–based League of American Pen Women honored her in 1921 for her work promoting Dante.

[12] Durant Rose was involved in work to give women students more access to classes and examinations at Columbia University in the 1880s.

[16] In 1898 she headed a theatrical fundraiser for the First New York Ambulance Red Cross Equipment Society, which included her own play By the King's Command along with other tableaux and performances.

Her first husband was Arthur Frethey, a medical student she met in London; she was widowed when he died just six weeks after their 1891 wedding.