[1] Early in life, she became associated with local newspapers and for many years contributed as editorial writer, her musical and book criticisms attracting wide attention at the same time.
[4] Subsequently, Stockton was associated with various leading journals as editorial writer, book editor, and music critic.
[1] Stockton was the originator and president of the Round Robin Reading clubs, a national correspondence organization.
It became an independent enterprise of the former chair, Louise Stockton, and was carried on largely by correspondence, and later through the pages of Scribner's Magazine.
Its members selected their own subjects, endeavoring to make them acquainted with whatever illustrates or elucidates their work, and to interest them in the best books, and thus assist in the proper use of public libraries.
[5] Stockton was the author of Dorothea, a novel (1882) ; A Sylvan City (1883); republished as Quaint Corners; Apple Seed and Briar Worn (1887), and of several novelettes, many short stories, and historical essays in magazines.