Career
They had two children, Anthony Highmore (later a painter) and Susanna (also known as a poet). Richardson said that she was an indulgent but conscientious mother. Her first publication came with an obituary for Isaac Watts, published anonymously, in 1748.
In 1749, she wrote A Calvinistical Reflection for The Gentleman"s Magazine.
John Nichols later published two small poems written with great wit and polish, one being a pastiche of an Alexander Pope poem. Despite these hints at Highmore"s skill, she left nothing more to the public.
Her husband said that there were a great many poems that she wrote and left lying around, but he did not think to collect them nor she to publish them (her religious principles partly discouraging her from the pride of seeking attention). She died at the age of sixty.