[1] She developed a fondness for art and constantly studied, both in Europe and the U.S.[5] For two or three years, she was served as a principal of some of the large schools in and around Boston.

[1] With a desire to pursue writing, she accepted a position on the Malden, Massachusetts, Mirror, where her contributions attracted the attention of the city editor of the Boston Herald.

For nearly a year, she covered a district comprising a large city and four towns, giving everything -social, religious, governmental, political, legal, or professional- regarding them by producing good results, often driving alone into Boston over dark bridges and in storms after midnight with the latest news.

[3] In the summer of 1890, she was sent by the Boston Herald on a European mission, and her description of the "Passion Play" and her letters from various parts of France, Great Britain and Ireland were widely read.

With the Countess Pagolini in Rome, where Owler spent years in work and study, she revived interest among Americans there and in the U.S. in the old Italian point lace industry.

)[4] In her later life, Owler struggled with ill health, aggravated by injuries received from being struck by a trolley car in 1912.