She wrote a series of stories for children, which were collected and edited by Dr. Summers, and published in four small volumes, called, Wayside Flowerets, Heart Blossoms for My Little Daughters, Bible Gleanings, and Driftwood.
Gonzalo de Cordova was a translation from the Spanish; Duncan Adair, was a novel; and Azile, was a story partly of Southern experiences during the American Civil War.
Later, she read the works Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Mary Martha Sherwood, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Charles Dickens.
When a Kentucky election would come on, she would sometimes write a handbill on a half-sheet of paper for some favorite candidate, to be read by the members of her family.
He lived only seven years after marriage, leaving her with three young children to support,[5][6] including Elizabeth Pendleton Hardin (b.
For that journal she wrote Wayside Flowerets, Heart Blossoms for My Little Daughters, Bible Gleanings, and Driftwood.
[7][5][6] Her Southern sentiments were so intense in favor of the Confederacy that she and her daughters were imprisoned at Camp Chase for six months for waving their handkerchiefs to John Hunt Morgan's troops.
[4] Six Months under a Cloud, a series of letters filled with incidents of prison life, was written after they were released, and received with enthusiasm by her readers.
She seemed to discover intuitively the mental caliber of her scholars, their strong and weak points, and inspired them with ambition and zeal.
Her sympathy and interest in their duties, her lectures, reading and varied means of imparting information, assured her a success rarely equaled.
Her personal magnetism was great, and she gave an impetus for good to many who have since taken their places as useful and exemplary members of society.