[1][6] Florida Pier became the first woman on the staff at the New York Evening Sun where she had a weekly column.

[1] In 1910 she married John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell and moved to her husband's native Scotland, and lived in Baillieston House 6 miles east of Glasgow where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright.

[5] In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practiced as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland.

[1] In the Callander Advertiser and Killin Times, the reviewer is especially drawn to Scott-Maxwell's interpretation of modern women and their relationship to others and themselves.

[13] A reviewer from the Wichita Falls Times wrote, "This study is written in beautiful prose and without the usual verbiage and terminology of the scientist.

[13][15] The book also addresses difficulties women encounter while trying to continue their own sense of individuality when they are filling traditional gender roles.

"[19] Scott-Maxwell's Measure of My Days (1968) was written first as a journal when the writer was in her 80s and living in a nursing home.