Three of her songs were included in the Select Ayres and Dialogues (1655), a collection published by Dering's teacher Henry Lawes.

The marriage turned out well; the couple produced seventeen children (seven of whom died young), as well as poems and music.

Not only in regard of that honour and esteem you have for Musick, but because those Songs which fill this Book have receiv’d much lustre by your excellent performance of them; and (which I confesse I rejoice to speak of) some which I esteem the best of these Ayres, were of your own Composition, after your Noble Husband was pleased to give the Words.

For (although your Ladiship resolv’d to keep it private) I beg leave to declare, for my own honour, that you are not only excellent for the time you spent in the practise of what I set, but are your self so good a Composer, that few of any sex have arriv’d to such perfection.

Her music fits stylistically within the mid-seventeenth century Baroque tradition, and is noticeably influenced by the work of Lawes.