[1] Her elder sister, Katherine Paris Storrow, was the wife of banker Francis McNiel Bacon.

[1] Many of her novels closely examined the social world of New York and Washington, D.C., and she was known as the Edith Wharton of her day.

[4][7] On April 21, 1868, she married Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger in Trinity Chapel in New York City.

[13][7][14][a] Cruger, who spoke French fluently, then moved to Paris for several years living at 5 Rue du Général-Lambert and Avenue de Suffren,[11] returning to New York not long before her death.

[4] As both of her daughters from her first marriage died young, her estate was inherited by her nephew, Wentworth Cruger Bacon.