In her second novel, Patterns in the Sand, set in Charleston, S.C. a feminist exploration of a young woman's coming of age in a sexist and confining culture, set at the outbreak of World War I. Written in England in the early 1940s, the novel was discovered by Barbara Ozieblo in the Kenneth Hopkins Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, during her time there as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2000.