 She married Christian Freiherr von Perin-Gradenstein in 1830 and they had four children together, only three of which reached adulthood, before his death in 1841.A few years later, she hired the composer and journalist Alfred Julius Becher to teach piano for her daughter Marie and they later became lovers.During the early stages of the Austrian Revolution of 1848, von Perin-Gradenstein supported Becher's newspaper "The Radical" () and agitated for women's rights.