 Shepherd’s wide social circle included men and women of science, literary figures and others of intellectual accomplishment, and she enjoyed discussing metaphysical topics. This may have helped to garner an audience for her work. Its merits were publicly acknowledged in several ways. There is good evidence that one of her monographs was used as a textbook at Cambridge. Her part of a sharp philosophical dispute was published in a monthly magazine. Her theory of mind and self are the subject of an entry in Robert Blakey’s multi-volume History of the Philosophy of Mind (1850). After her death and before its recent recovery, her philosophy dropped from view for reasons that are not entirely clear (Atherton 2005; Paoletti 2011). 