Rowe received a strong domestic education, and she began contributing verse to miscellanies and pious collections in her late teens. She published very widely in periodicals, and had a range of friendships with figures of the first importance (Prior, Watts). Her works, esp. Friendship in Death, were reprinted many many times in the 18 and 19c. A paradigmatic example of the pious gentlewoman poet, not shy of publication but independently secure financially.