Much of her work was devoted to the career of the Anglo-Irish Romantic novelist Maria Edgeworth, a relative of her husband, including a classic literary biography and an important edition of her collected works for Pickering & Chatto. She collaborated with her sister-in-law Christina Colvin on Maria Edgeworth, resulting in two books for which they each won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1973.
Her work focused on the career of the Anglo-Irish Romantic novelist Maria Edgeworth, a relative of her husband, including a classic biographical account and an important edition of her collected works published by Pickering & Chatto. She collaborated with her sister-in-law Christina Colvin on a biography of Maria Edgeworth, resulting in two books for which they each won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1973.