Her family were so strong members of the Church of England, that when Dudley decided to follow the Quakers there was angry relatives[2] and talk of disapprobation by John Wesley.

Her Irish husband had four children and their son Charles Stokes Dudley was born in 1780.

She started preaching more widely in 1786 and by 1788 she was leaving her family to tour on the continent with a group of other Quakers.

In the early 1790s she was one of several Quaker preachers who evangelised throughout Ireland, but in 1796 ill health drove her to convalesce in Hotwells.

The book was titled Types of Quaker Womanhood and it was published by the Friends' Tract Association.