[2] Moss was educated by her parents, and at an early age began with her sister Celia the composition of poems and stories.

[4] In 1838 the sisters published by subscription a book of poems entitled Early Efforts, influenced in part by classical Jewish texts and the works of Late-Romantic female poets like Felicia Hemans and L.E.L.

[7] Each chapter consisted of a "Historical Summary" of some particular period of Jewish history, followed by a story which the authors had woven round the principal events.

She contributed "The Gift and the Loan," and other tales, to the Bradford Observer, which were afterwards reproduced by Isaac Leeser in the Occident.

[10] In August 1845, she married Paris-born Alphonse Hartog, with whom she had been taking French lessons, and shortly after her marriage established a boarding and day school for young children, which she continued to conduct until her retirement in 1884.

[16] The journal's fourteenth and final issue was published on 8 June 1855, and ended with the poem "On the Death of My Beloved Child".