 In 1890 she adopted the surname "Livingston" (from her maternal great grandfather) following separation from her first husband, Lieut.William Reeve Hamilton, who disapproved of her budding career as an actress.In 1892 she expatriated herself to England (and from her first husband) as foreign correspondent for the "Boston Evening Transcript", supplying that paper with approximately 120 "letters" between 1892 and 1897 before devoting herself full-time to fiction, although she remained an occasional freelance journalist for the rest of her life.