She began a writing career at age 12, establishing a small newspaper which continued to circulate in her home village for many years after she had left.

On board ship en route to Canada, she met Arthur Hewlett, who was to become her husband in December, 1911. Her first teaching assignment in Canada was at a country school near Kitscoty, Alberta, where she learned something of the hardships and privations which rural people of that time accepted as inevitable. In letters to her family in England """"""""Maisie"""""""" Hewlett expressed a burning desire to do whatever she could to show them the way to a better lifestyle.

After her marriage to Arthur Hewlett, she moved to the farm home at Cannington Manor in southeast Saskatchewan. Arthur Hewlett had settled there in 1894, joining a group of English families who had earlier set up the well known Cannington Manor settlement, attempting to carve out of the Prairie landscape an environment as nearly as possible like the English countryside they had left.

Again Maisie Hewlett saw at first hand how the farming community lived. She was distressed at what she described as the ìbarren lives of farm womenî, and was instrumental in helping launch an association which came to be known as the Saskatchewan Homemakerís Club, later the Womenís Institute. She is credited with much of the effort that brought farm women together in large numbers in their own organization, the Homemakerís Club.

Described by friends as a womenís liberationist before her time, Mrs. Hewlett sought, through hundreds of articles in the press, both in England and in western Canada, to tell farm women how they could develop interests which would be a refreshing contrast to the dull routine of the farm housewife of the time. Her column, ìDown on the Farmî carried by The Saskatchewan Farmer for a long period of years, was outspoken and direct. In essence, its purpose was to declare that farm women were entitled to certain rights and they would need to assert these rights, in the interest of themselves and their families.

Mrs. Hewlettís book, ìA Too Short Yesterday"""""""", was published in 1973 when she was 83, describing her experiences as a teacher, homemaker and ardent worker on behalf of farm women. She was a member of the Canadian womenís Press Club and widely recognized as a writer of great talent and sensitivity. She was also recognized as a talented artist; water colour was her favourite medium and flowers her favourite subject.

The family home, Hewlett Manor, is now a privately owned and operated museum and is open to the public as part of the Cannington historic park.