[4] Hinman contributed for a number of years to many periodicals, including Harper's Magazine, leading religious journals and prominent newspapers.

For five seasons she managed the Washington, D. C. correspondence for a large New York paper, handling a huge workload.

She spent a part of the year 1891 in Europe, writing for a number of American periodicals.

[5][6] The Washington Sketch Book was a well-known and received guide, and it was reprinted at least until 1917, when the 6th edition was released.

[7] In Washington, D.C., Hinman worked with the National Reform Association and lobbied Congress on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

[3] Hinman died in February 1926, in poverty; she was found in a furnished room in Brooklyn and was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution.