In the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette of October 1878 it was noted "a clever young girl of sixteen, daughter of the novelist, Joseph Hatton has already made a hit at the age of sixteen.

Her first picture is accepted, and hung at the Chicago Exhibition in the United States.

"[1] In 1885 at the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours in London Hatton exhibited "Between the Dark and the Daylight".

[2] In 1895 she exhibited a portrait Mrs. Walter Ellis at The Royal Academy in London.

[4] On 20 Jun 1889 Hatton married fellow artist William Henry Margetson in London.