In addition to two books, she wrote poems, newspaper articles, short stories, and plays.

[1] She had three sisters, Louise S. and Maria R. (twins) and Jennie M., and two brothers, George E. and Ben F.[2] Perley was well-educated.

She was a student in Hanover, 1890–1891; and attended summer school in the English Department at Harvard University in 1897.

She also studied at the Cours Maintenan and Alliance Francaise of Paris; the Berlitz School; and the Lafayette College of Languages at the Boston University, 1902.

[1] She published French fairy plays (with Mathurin Marius Dondo; New York, London Oxford University Press, 1923)[12] and The Last of the Bodyguard: Smith Stimmel (Chicago, Methodist Book Concern, 1935).