She is known for her series of portraits, making etchings from drawings collected by her husband.
[2] She was the daughter of William Palgrave, one of 12 children; her sister Anne married Edward Rigby.
She married Dawson Turner, and they had 11 children, of whom eight survived to adulthood.
[1][3] She etched a series of 50 illustrations by John Sell Cotman for her husband's Account of a Tour in Normandy (1820).
There was a larger collection including also buildings and landscape subjects.