In 1949, she published a memoir, "I Leap Over The Wall: A Return to the World after Twenty-eight Years in a Convent". The book, later sub-titled, "Contrasts and impressions after..." is a memoir of some of the contrasts between life in an enclosed convent and life out in the contemporary world. Baldwin relates how she could not recall reading a newspaper during the entire course of the First World War. When she entered, the popular use of telephones, cinema and radio were in their infancy; when she left they were common in England.