Throughout her career, she wrote a variety of pieces spanning many genres, including historical novels, mysteries, religious plays, and poetry.

[2]Converse gave a series of lectures on Percy Bysshe Shelley in New Orleans in 1896.

[8] "Miss Converse is doubtless one of the most interesting of the minor poets," wrote a reviewer in 1937.

[9] Converse was in a lesbian relationship known as a Boston marriage with Vida Dutton Scudder.

[13] Converse wrote in various genres, including historical novels, mysteries, religious plays, and poetry.