Her earliest work to appear under her own name was "Arabi and His Household" (1882), a pamphlet—originally a letter to "The Times"—in support of Ahmed Orabi Pasha, leader of what has come to be known as the Urabi Revolt, an 1879 Egyptian nationalist revolt against the oppressive regime of the Khedive and the European domination of Egypt. She later said of this booklet, "whatever political indignation or energy was born with me may have run its course in that Egyptian year and worn itself out". Despite this, in 1893 she published "A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin", an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone's proposed second Home Rule Act.