In 1881, Naden published her first volume of poetry "Songs and Sonnets of Springtime". This is a diverse collection, and her sonnet sequence that describes the changing of the seasons is particularly notable. In 1885 she won the "Paxton prize" for an essay upon the geology of the district. She published a second volume of poetry "A Modern Apostle, the Elixir of Life, the Story of Clarice, and other Poems" in 1887. In this volume appear her best known poems, the 'Evolutional Erotics', which are written from a comic anthropological perspective about human relationships, using Darwin's theory of sexual selection as a basis. She also wrote in the "Journal of Science," "Knowledge," "The Agnostic Annual" and other periodicals. She authored many of her scientific and philosophical essays under the signatures of CN, CA and Constance Arden.