Her first appearance in print was a slight volume of verse, "Philosophies in Little", published at Sydney in a limited edition in 1921. It attracted little notice but was included by Percival Serle in his list of the more important volumes in his "Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse", published in 1925. Her play, "A Man of His Time", based on the life of Benvenuto Cellini and written partly in blank verse, was performed by McMahon's repertory company at Sydney and published there by Angus & Robertson in 1923. Her first novel, "Acquittal", appeared in London in 1925 and was followed by "The Baseless Fabric" (short stories) in 1925 and "Cups, Wands and Swords" (1927). "The Women's Comedy" (a play) was privately printed in 1926.