“Although a prolific writer, she has always written carefully and in finished style, and her contributions to the literature of early New England possess a rare value from her intimate knowledge of the pioneers of the eastern colonies gained from thorough reading and tradition. Her work is distinctly American in every essential.”
Austin wrote many books, several related to the Plymouth Colony.
She had many publishers over the course of her career, including J. E. Tilton and Company, Sheldon and Company, J. R. Osgood and Company, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, F. M. Lupton Publishing Company.
