As Frida Waldbach, and later as Lady Adalfrid, she is a proficient witch and prolific research scholar.
Like other witches, Adalfrid's working style is improvised and intuitive. Her broad area of interest is the natural world and ecology. She is given to following the latest trendy theories concerning child-rearing and education.
See also: Chromatic Theory, one of the systems she researches: her paper on the subject is unfinished at the time of her death, and is thought to have been destroyed in the subsequent unpleasantness.