[2] She designed the Royal Order of the Star of Oceania in 1886 for King Kalakaua and was one of the few women to be awarded the honor.

There she was Robert Louis Stevenson's literary assistant transcribing his words when he was too ill to write.

[6] In 1926 Field purchased Zaca Lake and surrounding land in the Figueroa Mountains near Los Olivos, California.

[7] Isobel built an artists' studio there and the Field home became a popular meeting place for writers and actors.

[8] Isobel and her brother Lloyd wrote about Robert Louis Stevenson and their experiences in Samoa in Memories of Vailima (1902).