She served as editor of the woman's department of the Metropolitan and Rural Home and was in charge of all the press work sent out by the general board of lady managers to the New York papers during the World's Columbian Exposition.

Her father's position in the literary and artistic world and her own beauty made her one of the favorites of the intellectual circles of New York City.

Her first position was as a general worker on the Press, where she performed various tasks, including art criticism, society news, fashions, gossip, and articles about women.

In 1891, she widened her field of work so as to include many of the leading New York papers, her articles on topics of important and permanent interest appearing in the Sun, the Tribune, the World, the Herald and other journals.

That position required her to move to Albany and her temporary withdrawal from active newspaper work in New York, although she retained certain of her connections with the press.