[1] From the age of about 17 until she died, Isabel lived with her brother Benson; first in Dover in 1817, and later she officially moved in with him in Woolwich in 1820.

From 1827 to 1834, Isabel and Benson lived in Cecil Street in Strand, London, before finally moving to Brompton.

[1][clarification needed] Isabel Hill wrote poetry throughout her childhood and was always interested in languages.

[5] During this time, Isabel had problems with one of her publishers, W. G. Graham, who swindled her out of the profits these pieces were accumulating.

[6] However, at the time it was written it received praise from stage actors William Macready and Charles Kemble.

In 1833, Isabel's most well-known work was published: a translation of Corinne, or Italy – a French romance novel written by Germaine de Staël that tells the story of an Italian poet and an English nobleman.