She was only 16 when in 1829 she married Georg Johann Wilhelm Megerle von Mühlfeld, a surgeon and dentist, in Preßburg.
Due to his lack of business acumen, and partly bad luck, he lost all his and his wife's money.
She had already begun to establish herself as a writer, with novellas and short stories published in magazines or journals such as Sonntagsblätter [de] and Ludwig Augustus Frankl's Abendzeitung, and was thereby met with modest success.
[2] Her novel Die beiden Graßel (The two Grassels) had no fewer than five editions as well as a stage adaptation, which she herself wrote.
[2][3] She became progressively more prolific as a dramatist, and began to adapt English and French novels, producing more than 50 stage works pieces.