She married the 29-year-old Robert Thompson Crawshay on 15 May 1846 at St Peter's Church, Caversham.

She was not keen on Welsh culture and she joined the National Society for Women's Suffrage founded by Lydia Becker in 1867.

[1] She became a Vice President of the Bristol and West of England National Society for Women's Suffrage.

[2] No woman before 1900 sat on two school boards, and Crawshay chaired one and was re-elected twice retiring in 1879.

[3] The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is now "only" £500, but it provides a valuable recognition for non-fiction women writers.