 Her sixth book, "Little He and She", a child's story, written in the spring of 1888, was published in November, 1890.Litchfield was in Mentone, on the Italian Riviera, when that portion of Italy was visited by the earthquake of February 23, 1887, and narrowly escaped death under the falling walls of her residence.Her account of the earthquake on the Riviera, "In the Crucible", was published in 1897.