 Her next two novels, "An American Girl in London" (1891) and "The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib" (1893) followed a similar pattern, but then came "A Daughter of To-day" (1894), described by Dean as her first "serious novel" and by Warkentin as a "new woman" work that is "flawed but fascinating".It was with this fourth book that she took to using both her married and maiden name.