 In her book "Miss Miles or a Tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago", Taylor writes about the lives of five women in Gomersal and their attitudes towards work; where four of the women endure financially and mentally due to their working lives, whilst the fifth woman who doesn't have the motivation to pursue independent work is fated towards a woeful life.Taylor remarked that her time and efforts spent in Wellington would be the part of her life which she would consider most agreeable because of the attitudes of settlers and the equal opportunities available for all those establishing the new township regardless of their gender and age.In settler ideology, there was a strong opposition to snobbery and any efforts to impose class distinctions which wholly satisfied Mary.