In a career that spanned five decades, she wrote in a variety of literary genres; however, it is her fiction, written under the influence of the naturalists Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, that has captured the attention of recent critics.
Dalam kariernya yang berjalan selama lima deade, ia menulis berbagai genre sastra; namun, karya fiksinya, yang ditulis di bawah pengaruh naturalis Émile Zola dan Guy de Maupassant, yang telah mencuri perharian dari para kritikus.