[2] The Question Mark evolved the concept of dystopian fiction originated by writers such as H. G. Wells, predating and possibly informing such works as Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
[3] In 1927, Jaeger wrote her second novel the Man with Six Senses about a weakly youth Michael, endowed with unrefined psychic talents, who was helped towards maturity by his sympathetic girlfriend, Hilda.
After a six-year gap in her fiction work, Jaeger's third novel Hermes Speaks was published in 1933 and explored the consequences of following the prophecies of a preternaturally intelligent child groomed into becoming a fake medium.
[2][6] Though critical response and limited sales ultimately led her to stop publishing, Jaeger made her mark with dynamic critiques of modern Western civilization and brought a unique voice to the struggles of subjectivity and scientific reason that shook the post-Victorian mindset.
[8] She also wrote many non-fiction books including popular history and biographies such as Sisyphus: Or, the Limits of Psychology (1929), Experimental lives from Cato to George Sand (1932), Wars of Ideas (1942), Liberty versus equality (1945), Shepherd's trade (1965), and Before Victoria : changing standards and behaviour, 1787-1837 (1967).