She began to write short stories at such an early age that it was said she was "born with a pen in her hand.

"[4] In 1884, she became a journalist and engaged with the "Daily Evening Reporter" of Burlington, where she labored until its change of management.

In 1885, at the solicitation of the publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, she began a series of articles with the unique title "Scribbler's Letters to Gustavus Adolphus".

Notwithstanding her work while occupying the editor's chair, she contributed regularly sketches, short stories and articles on domestic topics to at least a dozen other periodicals.

Her chief literary work was the "Queen of Home," (Philadelphia, 1889) treating in an exhaustive and masterly manner subjects of household interest from attic to cellar.

[4] She was a regular contributor to several English home magazines and completed a series of papers on household topics for a London periodical.