[1] After her marriage broke down, Lockett worked as a student teacher from 1877[6] and then assistant schoolteacher at Hamilton Public School in 1880.

[1] Alongside her teaching, Lockett sent articles on the Australian social and political scene which were published in The Westminster Review, The Nineteenth Century (TNC) and St James's Gazette.

The literary critic for The Age wrote that the book "shows power which, with a little experience, might have placed her in a high position amongst English authors" and that "the gradual development of Judith's character and her change from Calvinism to a species of Pantheism are well drawn; but the hero is at best a poor creature".

[14] In the Australian Woman's Mirror in 1926, "Pacla" wrote that Lockett had influenced Sir Alfred Stephen's writing (he had drafted the NSW Divorce Amendment and Extension Act), following publication of her article on the subject in The Nineteenth Century, a London literary journal.

[16] Lockett died aged 43 on 14 November 1890 at St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst[17] and she was buried at Waverley Cemetery.