 Her first novel, "Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill", appeared serially in the "Australian Journal" in 1888, and was published in London in 1889 under the pseudonym of Tasma.It had an immediate success and was followed by "In her Earliest Youth" (1890), "A Sydney Sovereign and other Tales" (1890), The "Penance of Portia James" (1891), "A Knight of the White Feather" (1892), "Not Counting the Cost" (1895), and "A Fiery Ordeal" (1897).Couvreur's husband died in 1894 and Madame Couvreur took up his duties as correspondent of "The Times" at Brussels.