A relative of Lewis Carroll,[1] she wrote some minor novels and books of poems, including the anonymous, The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses, 1863.
She translated the old German ballad "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains" into English blank verse in 1846.
[4] Her first novel, The Maiden Aunt, originally appeared in Sharpe's London Magazine under the pen name "S.M.
[6] In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she also provided material for parliamentary reports on pauper schools.
She died at their home Grove Lodge in Regent's Park, London on 25 May 1877 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.