¥Lady
Hope was a prolific writer, with some 30 items (dating from 1876 to 1909) listed in the British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books and the U.S. National Union Catalog.
¥She
and some Christian friends began a ministry to lower-class families in Sussex, beginning with Bible studies for girls, and eventually leading to
coffee-houses as substitutes for the
pubs, where working-men were ruining their
families through drink. See her
book Our Coffee-Room
(1876).
¥I
suspect it was this work that led to the reported meeting with Darwin, as the context suggests she may have been seeking a meeting place in the neighborhood.