 Beginning as a writer of fiction, she made her initial move into non-fiction with a biography of the "fin de siècle" novelist George Gissing.She wrote books about Londoners as separate in time as Rosamond Lehmann, a novelist contemporary of the Bloomsbury Group, and Wenceslaus Hollar, a Czech etcher of the seventeenth century.Another of Tindall's works, "The Journey of Martin Nadaud