Isolated in the English countryside after her scandalous affair, she wrote many letters, especially to her friend William Shenstone, the duchess of Somerset, and her half-brother Bolingbroke. She and her friends formed the ‘Warwickshire coterie’; she was known in their literary circle as Asteria. She lived on £500 a year and created a ferme ornée. From about 1750 she was in severe financial difficulties. Her poetry was published in Dodsley's Collection (1775), passed along to Dodsley by Shenstone.