Her belief in the positive benefits of the British Empire infused her writing. As a correspondent for "The Times", Shaw sent back "Letters" in 1892 and 1893 from her travels in South Africa and Australia, later published in book form as "Letters from South Africa" (1893). Writing for the educated governing circles, she focused on the prospects of economic growth and the political consolidation of self-governing colonies within an increasingly-united empire, with a vision largely blinkered to the force of colonial nationalisms and local self-identities.