 Her father was a man of property.She married Sir George Chudleigh, 3rd Baronet (died 1718) of Ashton, Devon on 25 March 1674.Her biographers argue whether their marriage was happy; her references to marriage as a stifling trap for women suggest she may have had personal experience with an overbearing husband, yet he allowed her to publish several feminist works in his lifetime, and her unpublished work was saved by the family after her death.