At the 1895 Atlanta Exposition, a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate trade, she won a bronze medal and in 1899 won a gold medal at an exhibition in Earl's Court, London for her illustration of George Eliot's "Middlemarch" and Maria Mulock Craik's "John Halifax, Gentleman". A year later, her illustrations for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun" won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universalle in Paris.