 She wrote both for adults and children, and her children's books include "The Dogberry Bunch" (1880), "Rocky Fork" (1882), and "Old Caravan Days" (1884).With her interest in the details of locality and daily life, she is said to have helped move American juvenile literature away from the extreme sentimentality of the era.Catherwood did a great deal of research for her historical novels, and made several research trips to Europe and Canada.