[1] Her books Slippy McGee and A Woman Named Smith are part of the Library of Congress Collection and have been digitized.
[3][4] Her maternal grandmother was born in Tipperary, Ireland and taught her about Irish folklore and fairy tales throughout her childhood.
[5] As a child, she lived with him in Florida, which is where she first met a Red Admiral, a butterfly that had an important role in her book The Purple Heights.
[9] She wrote the 1927 novel The Holy Lover focusing on John Wesley,[3] an 18th-century English religious leader.
[7] Most of her novels were written to appeal to wider audiences, using sensationalist adventure, romance, and suspense in her plots.