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Barlow was the daughter of Rev. James William Barlow, vice-provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Born in Clontarf, County Dublin, she spent most of her life living in a thatched cottage in Raheny, in the townland of Ballyhoy. She died in Bray, County Wicklow.

Barlow wrote both poems and novels. Her poetry collections include:

• Bog-land Studies (1892)
• The End of Elfintown (1894)
• Ghost-Bereft (1901)
• The Mockers and Other Verses (1908)
• Doings and Dealings (1913
• Between Doubting and Daring (1916)
• Irish Idylls (1892, went into eight editions)
• A Creel of Irish Stories (1897)
• From the East unto the West (1898)
• From the Land of the Shamrock (1900)
• By Beach and Bog Land (1905)
• Irish Neighbours (1907)
• Irish Ways (1909).

Her novels include Kerrigan’s Quality (1894) and The Founding of Fortunes (1902).