She published, edited and wrote for her weekly journal, Family Circle (Hungarian: Családi Kör), the first magazine for women in Hungary.

She married Gottfried Feldinger in 1847 and they moved to Temesvár (today Timișoara, Romania) where they published a German-language journal called Euphrosine.

[1] Kánya helped to edit Euphrosine with her first husband and the contacts that she made then proved to be useful after her divorce and she began writing and translating, using the pen-name 'Emilia'.

She became the first woman to publish a journal in Hungary when she received permission from the authorities in October 1860 to start the weekly Family Circle.

It became the official journal of the Charity Association of Women in Pest (Hungarian: Pesti Jótékony Nőegyesület) in 1864, but Kánya was forced to sell it in 1880 as she was losing subscribers.