[1][2][3] In about 1878 she married a surveyor, Hugh Paine Savigny, and by 1886 she was living as a widow in Toronto, her husband having died in 1881.
[1] Savigny penned a series of successful novels, starting with A Heart-song of Today, an 1886 romance set in London and published by George Maclean Rose.
[1] It was followed two years later by A Romance of Toronto (published by William Briggs), which was ambiguously labeled, in small capitals as "founded on fact".
[5] In 1895 she published Lion, the Mastiff (again with Briggs), a book that was imitative of Margaret Marshall Saunders's Beautiful Joe but still popular enough to be reprinted twice.
[5] The result was Dick Niven and his Horse Nobby: a book and a set of 24 accompanying magic lantern slides.