After the failure of the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and consequent suppression of liberal views, she left public life. Her brothers emigrated as Forty-Eighters, and her journal shut down after only four issues. She began living alone in 1850. She moved in with two younger relatives in 1880, and died on July 11, 1884 in Bessungen, largely forgotten. Her works were not revived until the 1970s and 1980s.