 Caird published her first two novels, "Whom Nature Leadeth" (1883) and "One That Wins" (1887), under the pseudonym "G. Noel Hatton", but they drew little attention.Her subsequent writings bore her own name.She came to prominence in 1888 when the "Westminster Review" printed a long article by her, "Marriage", in which she analysed indignities historically suffered by women in marriage and called its present state a "vexatious failure", advocating equality and autonomy of marriage partners.