After returning to England, she wrote a dramatized version, in five acts, of Scott's Fortunes of Nigel, and lectured.

Pentland's mother was also interested in the social issue of housing, supporting the work of both her daughter and Lupton.

[2][3][4] In 1884, her parents hosted a dinner at Haddo House honouring William Ewart Gladstone who, at that time, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Artist Alfred Edward Emslie captured the event in a painting which, in 1953, Pentland presented to the National Portrait Gallery, London.

[5] King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth reportedly "sent a message of sympathy to Lady Pentland" when her mother died on 18 April 1939.