Her ability to find new plants, and the quality of her drawings and specimens drew admiration from the leading botanists of the day, and her work was featured in many publications. Although she never published under her own name, she was a major contributor to the new and developing plant sciences of her era. At first refusing to have her name associated with her finds, she soon relented. The later volumes of "English Botany" (1790–1814) from James Sowerby and James Edward Smith included descriptions of her discoveries. The latter wrote of her that "she could find almost anything". Dawson Turner, in his "Fuci" (4 vols., 1808–19) in 1819, after her death said "that botany had lost a votary as indefatigable as she was acute, and as successful as she was indefatigable." In William Hooker's liverwort monograph " British Jungermanniae" (1816), her name was more or less connected with nearly every rare species mentioned within it. Her rare finds included lichens and she contributed to Lewis Weston Dillwyn's work "British Confervae" (1802–09).