By 1900, Eyton had already had a number of short stories published in New Zealand and Australia, under such titles as 'Behind the hills',[3] 'Queen Empress and the cotter's wife',[4] 'Down by the sea wall',[5] 'Woman in the clutches of the law: At the gaols',[6] and 'The girl he left behind him: An incident of the Transvaal war'.
[11] By April 1909, Eyton's first play, based on Victor Cherbuliez's 1877 novel Samuel Brohl et cie, was accepted for production in New York City.
[12][13] She married fellow writer Robert von Saxmar around 1920 in Los Angeles, where she found work as a stenographer at Paramount.
[16] Eyton died of burns sustained when her Halloween costume caught fire at a party being held in Pasadena, California.
[17] The party was being held in a cabin in Arroyo Seco, where she was temporarily residing while working on a novel; a lit match or cigarette somehow landed on Eyton's cotton snow maiden costume, which quickly went up in flames.