After making her home in California in the 1940s, her subject matter expanded to encompass contemporary Mexico in The Peacock Sheds His Tail (1945) and Californian agrarian life in The Cup and the Sword (1942) and The Cleft Rock (1948).
After making California her home in the 1940s, her subject matter expanded to cover contemporary Mexico in The Peacock Sheds His Tail (1945), as well as rural life in California in The Cup and the Sword (1942) and The Cleft Rock (1948).