Throughout these years she cared for her invalid father and published her short stories in a variety of magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly.

"[3] Her work is of interest in part for its exploration of feminist issues in a domestic context set against a background of an unsympathetic judicial system.

Daughters of India explores the world of polygamy and Trousers of Taffeta more specifically focuses on a woman's need to produce a male heir.

[4] In 1923, she married George Douglas Turner, a Scotsman she had met in India nineteen years earlier, after which she remained resident in England.

One summary of her critical reception concludes:[4] Graham Greene, in a review of The Law and the McLaughlins, wrote: "She has an admirable gift for very simple direct narrative, and her theme has always been passionately realized in terms of human beings.... we are always aware of a writer of fine moral discrimination and a passionate awareness of individual suffering.