[2] Holford was baptised on 1 June 1778 in Chester and on 16 October 1826 married Septimus Hodson (1768–1833), chaplain in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, who was then Anglican rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire.
[2] By 1835 Holford had bought a cottage in Plantation Terrace, Dawlish on the Devon Coast and remained there until she died at home on 11 September 1852.
[1] Around the same time she wrote Lines Occasioned by Reading the Poetical Works of Walter Scott and sent it to him, but he did not acknowledge receipt of it, despite intervention by their mutual friend, Joanna Baillie.
[1] The publication of Holford's novel First Impressions in 1800 compelled Jane Austen to change the title of her own novel to Pride and Prejudice.
[1] Following her marriage in 1826 she only published a translation from Spanish entitled The Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro (1832), dedicated to Robert Southey.