She was a successful platform speaker, writer, and officer of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WWCTU) on whose behalf she also visited Japan, China, India, Australia and other countries as a missionary.

[5] After marrying James Stevenson, a merchant of Boston, Newton, Massachusetts became her home.

[8] In November, Stevenson toured Australia in the interests of temperance reform, sent by the WWCTU as a representative of the world's officers of the Union on a special mission to the educational institutions of the Far East, including India, China, Japan, and Burma.

[9] She traveled from Bombay to Egypt, Israel, Greece and Italy before she came to London.

[8] In June 1910, Stevenson attended the eighth Triennial convention of the WWCTU in Glasgow.