Following her husband's sudden death, drowning in his bath associated with an epileptic fit in 1928, Taylor maintained their publishing business and while forced to close eight of their eleven journals, she maintained "Building" (later "Building, Lighting and Engineering") (1907–72), "Construction" (1908-74) and the "Australasian Engineer" (1915–73), editing them herself and expanding significantly after World War II. She continued to produce town plans and also travelled to Asia, the Americas and Europe bringing back ideas on town planning which informed her writings and speeches. She published a book about her town plans in 1959, authored by her employee J.M. Giles, "Fifty years of town planning with Florence M. Taylor". Taylor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1939 and elevated to a Commander of that order in 1961.