For a time Farman and Shaw worked as teachers, before they decided to move to Michigan and try to earn their living by farming.
[4] When the story was expanded, and published as a book by D. Lothrop and Company in 1879, the pen name of Dorothea Alice Shepherd was used once more.
[11] From 1897 until shortly before her 1907 death Farman and Charles Stuart Pratt edited Little Folks,[12] a children's magazine published by S. E. Cassino Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.
[2] Eliza Anna Farman wed Charles Stuart Pratt on November 11, 1877,[8] For most of their married life the couple lived in Warner, New Hampshire.
[16] Farman Pratt was in poor health for several years, before dying at her home from myocarditis (inflammation of heart muscle) and neurasthenia (fatigue, anxiety) on May 22, 1907.