Her parents were Elizabeth Wells Fortescue and Richard Bowling Hunter Ridgway.

Her father dealt in wine he was held in the Fleet prison for debt in 1822.

[1] In 1839 she published her first book, ""Cutch; or, random sketches" which she created while living in that area of western India with her husband Thomas Postans.

These books were published in the year that her husband, now a Lieutenant, was posted to Sind in what is now Pakistan.

In 1853 she published "Persecution in Tuscany: a call for the protection of religious liberty throughout the world ..." which was addressed to William Gladstone.