Being a well-educated woman, she was the first lady to use the sources protected in Harvard Library for her researches on feminism. She opposed gender discrimination and worked for the women emancipation.
Her works inspired many women abolitionists who toiled for the women enfranchisement. She visited women in prisons and interviewed their life and what led them to such a pathetic state.
She also contacted many prostitutes in order to understand their dismal circumstances of their life. She also undertook rehabilitation efforts of those women prisoners.