[1][2] They were Scottish authors who wrote a number of books, poems and songs in the early nineteenth century, most notably a series of anthologies called The Odd Volume (1826–1827).
[1][2][7] When only eleven years old, Grace was said to have composed the song "O Mary ye's be clad in silk", a new melody to a slightly altered version of the "Siller Crown".
[10] The sisters wrote a novel The Busy Bodies (1827) set in Portobello, with characters based on real people.
Author William Baird wrote "That some of the characters represented were drawn from the life is only too evident from a statement we have heard that after its publication the Misses Corbett had to leave Portobello for a time to escape the wrath of the so-called Busybodies.
"[2] In 1828, one of the sisters' plays, Aloyse, was performed at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and was said by author Ralston Inglis to have been a great success.