 The second edition added forty-four new poems, a portrait of Toru Dutt and her sister, and a preface by their father.At the time of her death, she left behind two novels, "Le Journal de Mademoiselle d’Arvers", (published posthumously in 1879), the first novel in French by an Indian writer, and "Bianca, or the Young Spanish Maiden", (thought to be the first novel in English by an Indian woman writer) in addition to an unfinished volume of original poems in English and Sanskrit translations, "Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan".It was after Dutt's death in 1877 that her father discovered the manuscripts of her writings, among which was "Ancient Ballads".