 She was married to the philosopher Max Stirner from 1843 to 1846.After divorcing she moved to London, and in 1852 to Australia.After returning to England she joined a Catholic commune, where she was found by Stirner's biographer John Henry Mackay, but refused to talk about her ex-husband and claimed, "Stirner was a very sly man whom she had neither respected nor loved, and claiming that their relationship together had been more of a cohabitation than a marriage".