[6] However, her publications encompassed also art and landscape architecture criticism, fiction, and children's literature.

[4] She wrote articles in American Art Review, Century Magazine, and Garden and Forest (in which she wrote many unattributed articles)[4][7] After refuting an offer to edit the American Art Review in 1881, she began writing for Century Magazine.

[4] She advocated that the public should view architectural works, not as just the work of the individual firm owners, but the entire firm (particularly about McKim, Mead, and White),[4] and preferred architectural training at colleges for creating intellectual and genteel architects, rather than the on-the-job training which was common at the time.

[4] In 1915, in honor of their deceased son, she donated a collection of reproductions of frescoes, vases, and other objects which illustrate the prehistoric culture of Greece to Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University.

[4] Although she did vote in 1893 while living in Colorado, she later was involved with New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage for Women.