Catherine Dawson Scott, freed from daily household duties after the birth of the third child, found country life stifling and missed the literary culture of London.

She produced seven more books in six years until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, including in 1909 Treasure Trove (1909), The Agony Column (1909), and Madcap Jane (1910).

[6] Dawson Scott continued to write and publish works, including Mrs Noakes, An Ordinary Woman (1911) and a guide (with map) titled Nooks And Corners of Cornwall (1911).

In 1912, Dawson Scott met poet Charlotte Mary Mew, who has reportedly read Macdap Jane.

[4] In the summer of 1913, Catherine Dawson Scott asked Charlotte Mew to her home in Southall to recite a few poems to a small group of acquaintances — but the self-conscious poet only consented a year later.

At the start of World War I broke out, her husband entered the Royal Army Medical Corps[8] and was sent to France[6] while Dawson Scott, with the support of the British secretary of state for war Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, created the Women's Defence Relief Corps in late August 1914.

The corps had two divisions: civil section, to substitute women for men in factories and other places of employment in order to free those men for military service; and a “semi-military” or “good citizen” section, for active recruitment of women for the armed forces, to be trained in drilling, marching and the use of arms so they could protect themselves and their loved ones on the home front in case of enemy invasion.

[12] Dawson Scott would sometimes invite the literary agents and editors she knew to attend Club dinners, while encouraging the young writers to meet them.

The PEN Club dedicated itself to fostering a community of writers who would defend the role of literature in an ever-evolving society.

[6][13] PEN was a shortened acronym for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists, and though it was intended as apolitical, both its membership and leadership has been left-leaning.

In 1929, Dawson Scott founded The Survival League, a spiritualist organization which sought to unite all religions to study psychical research.