 For Halkett, writing about what she had read, her dreams, and her hopes for her children were a part of her daily domestic devotions as well as for pleasure.Her religious writings seem to have been composed over a fifty-five-year period (1644–99).Halkett's autobiography (which can be titled as "Autobiography" or "Memoirs", depending on the editor) is a candid record of personal and political events during the English Civil War.