[1] She ran the large household and impressive visitors included Richard Cobden and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

To support Stowe's work, she organised a "Penny Offering" at the Birmingham Ladies’ Negro's Friend Society.

Six years before they married her husband organised the World Anti-Slavery Convention "for gentleman" in London.

She was not as enthusiastic a Quaker as her parents but she was an active member of the Ladies' Temperance Association, the Free Produce Committee, a committee to improve the education of Jamaican girls, the Infirm and the Aged Women's Society.

[1] Joseph and Hannah Sturge were spoken about internationally as pre-eminent in both the abolition and peace movements.