She produced images of Thomas Carlyle and John Herschel in 1867. By 1868, she was generating sales through P. & D. Colnaghi and a second London agent, William Spooner. In 1869, she created "The Kiss of Peace", which she considered her finest work. the early 1870s, Cameron's work matured. Her elaborate illustrative tableauxs involving religious, literary, and classical figures peaked in a series of images for Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", published in 1874 and 1875, evidently at her expense. During this time, she also wrote "Annals of my Glass House", an unfinished memoir recounting her photographic career.