In 1892, she and her brother Ricardo Palma accompanied their father on a trip to Spain, where he represented Peru at the Ninth International Congress of Americanists.
She edited a selection of her father's writings that was published under the title El Palma de la Juventud (The Palm of Youth) in Lima in 1921.
In 1926, she attended the Inter-American Congress of Women in Panama and in 1929, she returned to Europe after the Government of Peru appointed her as a delegate to the International Exhibition in Seville.
Angélica gave talks and lectures at the Cervantes Theater and was present at the tribute paid to her father at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires.
After traveling to the city of Rosario, she fell ill and shortly after being admitted to the British Sanatorium in Buenos Aires she died from an attack of pneumonia and pleurisy.