Pitiful and wise and strong, there was no form of human suffering or sorrow that did not find with her refuge and help.

She gave not only systematically, but also impulsively.
Miss Martineau claims for her the honour of having first invented practical schools, in which the children of the poor were turned into agriculturists, artizans, seamstresses, and good wives for poor men.
While she managed with admirable skill and economy permanent institutions of this sort, she was always ready to relieve suffering in any form.

The fugitive slaves William and Ellen Crafts, escaping to England, were fostered by her protecting care.
In many cases where there was distress or anxiety from poverty among those too self-respecting to make their sufferings known, the delicate hand of Lady Byron ministered to the want with a consideration which spared the most refined feelings.
As a mother, her course was embarrassed by peculiar trials.

The daughter inherited from the father not only brilliant talents, but a restlessness and morbid sensibility which might be too surely traced to the storms and agitations of the period in which she was born.

It was necessary to bring her up in ignorance of the true history of her mother's life; and the consequence was that she could not fully understand that mother.
During her early girlhood, her career was a source of more anxiety than of comfort.