Augusta de Wit began her career as a teacher at her alma mater, a girls' school in Utrecht.

For health reasons she left the classroom and became a writer, contributing to the Straits Times beginning in 1896.

She also wrote short stories, and corresponded with D. H. Lawrence about translating his works into Dutch.

[9] As literary critic at the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, de Wit admired the work of Edith Wharton.

[11] In recent years, her work is usually mentioned in the context of women writers and Dutch colonialism.