By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright.
Napisal je med drugim dela "A Natural History of Fossils" (1757), "Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells" (1776), "British Conchology" (1778) in več pomembnih člankov v reviji "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" ter drugih.