She made "Laura Brown" (1859) of bust of a girl and exhibited the National Academy of Design in New York. It is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1859, she published a volume of poetry entitled "Poems", which was a collection of her poems that were previously published in magazines, like "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Magazine", and newspapers. "North American Review" said of her poetry, "Every word strikes home; every line is clean, distinct as if cut in stone; the pen in her hands becomes so like the sculptor’s chisel that one questions if poetry be the fittest exponent of her genius.