Some of her verse can still be found today in Christian newsletters and even in an ad for a paint company describing their shades of white.

[4] She then moved to Chicago,[1] and devoted herself more than ever to literary work, though she was from early days a voluminous writer of prose and poetry.

Some of her work has appeared in a dozen different volumes, notably Kate Sanborn's Wit and Humor of American Women, Jessie Fremont O'Donnell's Love Songs of Three Centuries, Thomas Wentworth Higginson's collections of American Sonnets, and in numerous religious, elocutionary and juvenile works.

[6] Perry was associated with a coterie of writers including Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Sarah Dyer Hobart, Helen Hunt Jackson, Lucy Larcom and others.

She worked on the women's building at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago,[1] a member of committee on poetry and imaginative literature.