During 1850 the family resided at Weybridge, where Lady Duff-Gordon established and superintended a working-men's library and reading-room. There she translated "Stella and Vanessa", a romance by A. F. L. de Wailly, and in 1853 two other works: "The Village Doctor", by the Countess d'Arbouville, and "Ferdinand I and Maximilian II of Austria", by L. von Ranke. To this list of translations must be added "The Russians in Bulgaria and Roumelia, 1828–29", by Baron von Moltke, 1854. She edited "The History and Literature of the Crusades", by H. C. L. von Sybel, in 1861.