[2][3] Popular recitation pieces by Pauline Phelps included historical works such as Rosalind's Surrender (1901)[4] and As the Moon Rose, comic pieces with titles like Aunt Sarah on Bicycles and Telephone Romance (1899),[5] and the unusual Shakespearian Conference, in which a cast of Shakespeare's tragic characters gather to discuss the ways to increase the audience for Shakespeare plays.

[8] Works by the duo included When a Woman Loves (1900), The Girl from Out Yonder (1906),[9] A Grand Army Man (co-authored with David Belasco and performed on Broadway in 1907, with David Warfield and Antoinette Perry in the cast),[10] As Molly Told It (1909), Jack's Brother's Sister (1916),[11] The Flour Girl (1920),[12] Shavings (1920, based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln),[13] The Belle of Philadelphia Town (1925), Cosy Corners (1922),[14] Stop!

[16][17] Sweet Clover, one of the first of her collaborations with Marion Short to reach the stage, was called "by far the strongest play turned out yet by American female dramatists" by a critic from the Philadelphia Record.

[21] Pauline Phelps traveled to North Dakota to marry Hugh Connoran Short and reside in rural Billings County.

Social security records list her death in the town of Medical Lake, Spokane County, Washington in January, 1963.