She initially wrote historical novels under the name "Miss Burdon" or, after her marriage in 1841, as "Madame Wolfensberger".
After the death of her husband in 1850, she turned to writing social and political novels under the pseudonym "Lord B*******".
In 1841 she married the Swiss landscape painter Johann Jakob Wolfensberger.
[2] After his death in 1850 she began writing social-problem novels beginning with Masters and Workmen (1851).
[2] Because of this pseudonym, her later works were erroneously attributed to Frederick Richard Chichester, the Earl of Belfast.