 She established and managed a temperance hall in Portugal Street; renovated the parish almshouses near her home at Twickenham (a fact commemorated by a plaque on St Mary's Church, Twickenham); and, after a long association with King's College Hospital, established the St John's Hospital for the treatment of the poor.She was the founder of "mothers' meetings" in London, for which she wrote "Ten Years in a Ragged School" and "Readings for Mothers' Meetings".She contributed to the founding of the Bedford College for Women by Elizabeth Jesser Reid.