Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: Quietly and privately distressed with developments in the USSR ( The `` Great Purges '' ) , she continued to write for leading periodicals , including The Atlantic Monthly , Harper 's , The Nation and Asia .
Simplified: Quietly and privately upset with news in the USSR ( The `` Great Purges '' ) , she continued to write for leading periodicals , including The Atlantic Monthly , Harper 's , The Nation and Asia .