While devoting herself to charity and teaching, she found time to entertain noted men and to continue her own self-education.
The publication of her first book, written while superintending the instruction of her children, was retarded by the death of a son.
It appeared in Berlin in 1853 under the title Zwei Sclnvestern, and dealt with the triumph of love over self and was an idealistic exposition of the marital relation.
Her husband's business caused the family to move to Vienna; here Meyer met Leopold Kompert and Ludwig August von Frankl, and here she produced her sketch of Vienna life entitled Wider die Katur.
In Banden Frei (Berlin, 1869), her last novel, was a character study of her friend Lina Davidson.