[1] This allowed her financial independence that made possible a career path not then ordinarily open to women, though she often had to work unpaid or poorly paid.
With the encouragement of archaeologist Alexander Stuart Murray, who headed the museum's department of Greek and Roman antiquities, Hutton undertook research and restoration work on ceramics from the ancient Egyptian city of Naukratis.
In the late 1890s, Hutton traveled to Paris and Berlin to study Greek terracotta figurines in local collections.
[2][3] Hutton continued to research and write about Greek antiquities for many years thereafter, though at a slower pace, and devoted more of her energies to editorial and administrative work.
[2][3] From 1906 to 1926, she served as co-editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens, working with archaeologist Cecil Harcourt Smith.