 The first piece of work to bring her into prominent notice was the biographical sketch of her sister, Emma Lazarus, which first appeared in "The Century Magazine", October, 1888, and was afterward prefixed to “The Poems of Emma Lazarus” (New York and Boston, 1889).Between 1890 and 1893 she wrote articles on Marie Bashkirtseff in "Scribner's Magazine" and on Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller in "The Century Magazine".In 1895, six of her essays on Jewish subjects, which had appeared from 1892 to 1895 in "The Century Magazine" and "The Jewish Messenger" were collected and published in book form under the title "The Spirit of Judaism".