[2] Bean was a reporter at the Chicago Daily News, and in that job interviewed Carrie Nation and covered women's clubs and sports.

[7] In 1925 she began the T-Bean Syndicate,[8][9] and recruited many fellow journalists to contribute, including Martha Coman, Benjamin De Casseres, Alice Rohe, and Delight Evans;[10] her death in 1926 ended that venture.

[2] Bean marched in a unit with other women writers, including Mary Hunter Austin, Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Leckie and Kate Jordan, in a 1911 suffrage parade,[11] and she interviewed Carrie Chapman Catt for the Morning Telegraph in 1912.

[12] In 1915, she and others (including Fola La Follette and Alice Duer Miller) wore sandwich boards featuring suffrage arguments on the New York subway, to counter anti-suffrage advertising posters on the cars.

[26] On the occasion, Nellie Revell wrote in Variety, "It is a loss that has descended with crushing force upon me and all her other personal friends.