In 1804 her father, Henry Bennett, died leaving a failed building business.

Her godfather who was a Spalding-based solicitor paid for her to go to a boarding school in Kensington called Camden House.

In 1817 she stopped working as a governess for eight years as she was employed by her former Camden House teachers at a school they were running in Spalding.

After that she returned to being a governess until in 1837 she decided to open her own school in the town of Melton Mowbray with a friend named Susan Baldwin.

In the following year her memoir was published titled, The Christian Governess by her nephew George Bright Bennett who was a curate.