She received a scholarship to study at the Sisters of Mercy teacher's training college in Szatmár and in return she taught for one year in Miskolc.

At the beginning of the First World War she left her teaching job to focus full-time on her literary work.

Her works dealt mostly with two main themes: the fall of the gentry, and the physical and spiritual hardships of the independent women in the start of the 20th century.

She often wrote about her personal memories of great national crises, the glaring oppositions of the anachronistic society in Hungary.

Her second most famous work is Hangyaboly (The Ant Heap) collecting her memories from the years at the Sisters of Mercy; it was published in 1917.