She was described in the University of Ottawa Review as "a rare example of strenuous devotion to the service of God and His Church, rendered all the more forcible by reason of the obscurity in which she endeavored to shroud her work".
Her siblings were: While still a girl, and before her conversion, she started her literary career with a journal, afterward published with the title Unravelled Convictions, in which she recorded the various mental stages through which she was led through many doubts and bewilderments to find peace and rest in the Catholic Church.
Of the former class, there were B. Sebastian Valfre; Monsignore Cacciaguerra ("A Precursor of St. Philip"); Joan of Arc; B. Anthony Grassi ("A Saint of the Oratory"); St. Felix of Cantalice ("A Son of St. Francis"); and Sister Chatelain ; or, Forty Years' Work in Westminster.
The shorter biographies include those of St. Martin, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis Xavier, St. Philip Benizi, Mother Mary Hallahan, and two who commenced life as French naval officers, and a tribute to whom came from Lady Amabel, the wife of a British Admiral; they were Alexis Clerc, and Auguste Marceau.
From the German of Father Maurice Meschler, S.J., she translated The Gift of Pentecost (meditations on the Holy Ghost), and from the letters of François Fénelon, she selected a volume which she entitled Spiritual Counsels.
[11] Lady Amabel Kerr died at Melbourne, Derbyshire, England, 15 October 1906, and was buried at St. David's Churchyard, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland.