While there Yeats started to write fiction and published a home-made magazine, The Pleiades, with six friends, contributing ‘Story without a plot’ to the Christmas 1888 issue.

Yeats wrote and created the artwork for Elementary Brush-Work Studies (published in 1900), an educational book that teaches young children the technique of painting flowers and plants using her simple method.

In Dublin, she accepted the invitation to join Evelyn Gleeson to form the Dun Emer Guild along with Lily, who was an embroiderer.

[1] Despite being a gifted printer, the costings exceeded the quality of work that Yeats produced with the result that the press (like the guild) was often at risk financially.

[1] Eleven books, decorated with pastels by George William Russell, appeared under the Dun Emer imprint produced from a first-floor room.

In October 1906 she travelled to New York to advertise her products but published Dun Emer's last book William's Discoveries (1907) in late November when she returned to Dublin.

Their father, John Butler Yeats, had to castigate his son William for sending overtly critical letters to his sisters about the press.

[citation needed] She worked with Cuala Press until short of her death on 16 January 1940 after a diagnosis of high blood pressure and heart trouble.

An academic project at the Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin is putting images from some of the prints online.