She wrote short stories and essays about women and African Americans magazines before becoming a novelist.
Some people that Tuttle worked for in these positions include Walter B. Pitkin and Mary Hunter Austin.
During the late 1910s, Tuttle helped veterans while working at a New York branch of the American Red Cross.
[3] As an English teacher, Tuttle taught at Straight College in the early 1920s and The Windward School during the mid-1930s.
[10] In between her post-secondary studies, Tuttle began working at the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women in 1916 as a secretary.
[11] With assistant positions, Tuttle worked for Norman Thomas and Walter B. Pitkin between 1917 and 1918 in New York City.
[10] After spending a year at the Red Cross, Hedden left New York for New Orleans in 1920 and became an English teacher at Straight College.
During this time period, she worked for Mary Hunter Austin as a secretary and was hired by magazines as a book reviewer.
During this time period, Hedden was working in Westchester, New York as a writer and English teacher for The Windward School.
[21] For Wives of High Pasture, Hedden wrote about romance in a fictionalized group of people and used "the historical accounts of the Oneida Community" to write the book.
[28] The book was originally started as Prism before Hedden renamed it to Love Is a Wound after a work by Edith Rickert.