After completing her education, she married Antipas Morton Hatch, and became the mother of two sons. Being a farmer's wife, and living on a large farm, her writings were her recreation, and she was accustomed to writing during intervals of domestic life. Hatch's versatility afforded her to work in various areas of literature; for instance, at the same time that she was engaged in writing
The Bank Tragedy, a biographical sketch for
The Writer, she also wrote a series of dialect papers. She contributed several excellent poems, which were widely copied, among them an "Ode to J. G. Blaine". She contributed stories for the
Transcript,
Mountaineer,
Fireside Companion,
Chicago Ledger, ''
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Springfield Republican
, Granite Monthly
, The Writer'', and several magazines. Among her most noteworthy stories are her "Upland Mystery" and "The Bank Tragedy", both of which appeared in the
Transcript, with favorable comments from the US press. "Upland Mystery" was afterwards put in book form, and received a large sale. Poems, with a biographical note, were included in
New Hampshire Poets, published in 1883. Hatch served as Literary Contributor to Willard and Livermore's
American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897). Though sensational in form, Hatch's books claimed to have a purpose.
The Upland Mystery taught that when a person becomes a murderer he arrays the whole world against him. In
Quicksands, the keynote is ambition and other "sins which do so easily beset". In
The Bank Tragedy, it is
inherited sin. She died in
Santa Monica, California, November 28, 1935. ==Selected works==