Though unmarried, EC was not without domestic responsibilities. Even after her father's second marriage she had household tasks. She made puddings and sewed shirts; and she tutored her half-brother Henry, twenty-one years her junior, to prepare him for university. Later still she cared for her father in his old age, until he died in 1774.

On leaving school, Laura Ormiston Dibbin briefly joined her family at Bruton in Somerset. She then took a teaching position at Huddersfield in Yorkshire, but found both the job and the climate too demanding. She soon fell ill and returned home. She subsequently became a nurse, a choice of career that prompted her father to forbid her to come home again. Taking her mother's name instead of her own, Sister Sophia was employed at the London Hospital in Whitechapel, then Great Britain's largest hospital.

Her first work was, as she had planned, teaching. She worked very hard, in partnership with a friend, Martha Robbins , running a school at Watertown, Massachusetts, where they taught French, drawing, and polite behaviour.

During her husband's wartime absence, AC at first worked for the VAD as a nurse. She also dispensed medicine for the Red Cross . According to Red Cross records, she worked 3,400 hours between October 1914 and December 1916. Once certified as a dispenser in 1916, she earned £16 annually until the end of her service in September 1918.

In 1988, after completing her studies at Oxford, KC moved to her first teaching position. This was in the London area, teaching English and Drama at Copthall Comprehensive School in Barnet. She stayed in this job until 1990.

Initially Frances Cornford wanted to become a painter.

In Paris, the young LSC supplemented her mother's pension by painting miniatures and working as a governess.

She studied there for two years, and when her degree was awarded she was working as a research assistant at Thames Polytechnic .

IC worked as a journalist at The Scotsman, a newspaper to which she had already been contributing verse for several years.

Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, but the Hours Press became an important element in the Small Press movement. Over its short history it published twenty-four titles, including works by George Moore , Louis Aragon , Richard Aldington , Arthur Symons , Samuel Beckett (his first work to be published separately, Whoroscope), Ezra Pound , Havelock Ellis , and Laura Riding , in addition to the work NC shared with Crowder, Henry-Music. Her interest, she said, was in the hand-setting, choice of paper and of bindings. In 1929 she moved the press to 15 rue Guenégaud in Paris. By spring 1931, she had turned her energy to the preparation of her anthology, NEGRO, and the Hours Press ceased publication.

As an education reformer over four decades, ED worked, unlike most Victorian feminists, virtually full-time. She seemed indefatigable; as Barbara Caine notes: Without either secretarial help or any mechanical means of producing or duplicating letters, Davies kept up all the necessary minute-taking and correspondence of nearly a dozen organizations. She was the person who got the letters written, the meetings organized, the reports printed, and the journals and conference papers edited. . . . also the person who found new and imaginative ways to build on each success and to turn even liabilities into assets.

At not yet fourteen, Lady Elizabeth Livingston (later Delaval) , was appointed one of the maids of the privy chamber to Charles II 's newly-married wife, Catherine of Braganza .

After returning to school briefly after his time at the blacking factory, CD was soon back at work, this time as a legal clerk. In November 1828 he launched a career as a journalist, beginning with a number of newspapers including the family-run Mirror of Parliament. By 1836 he was well established as a successful and accomplished journalist.

While working very hard at the management of her plantation, she also found time for big-game hunting (some Africans called her Lioness Blixen). Additionally, she enjoyed practising medicine among her farm workers, somewhat in the manner of a white (that is a benevolent) witch, and entertaining settler society to meals, as in her own Babette's Feast. When she entertained the visiting Prince of Wales she succeeded, by negotiation with local Kikuyu chiefs, in arranging for his pleasure a ngoma, or dancing ceremony, generally performed only at the harvest.

Donne never practised as a lawyer, though he drew up some legal opinions. He took part in two military expeditions against Spain, worked as secretary to a statesman, and was elected a Member of Parliament. His first published poem, written well after the period of composition and circulation of his most famous love-lyrics, appeared in print as An Anatomy of the World in 1611, before re-appearing the next year as The First Anniversarie. An Anatomie of the World. Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the frailtie and the decay of this whole world is represented. He had already issued the earliest of his prose publications, and he continued to be a productive commentator on many abstruse topics throughout his life.

She enjoyed a short but modestly successful career on the stage in the late 1880s in Scarborough. Eventually she abandoned this path for more adventurous pursuits, though she continued to employ her talent for speaking in several capacities.

MD was a schoolteacher before becoming a full-time professional writer. She taught for two years at the City Literary Institute in Drury Lane, London, before attending King's College . Another teaching experience just after she was married was in Italy. Subsequently she taught in state schools for five years in South London. In the late 1950s she was NUT representative at the London school where she taught .

After taking her MD, NES became a rural physician for several years. In 1958 she was appointed to the Ministry of Health in Cairo.

Though he believed that Pascal would legally free him once they returned to England in 1762, he found himself prevented from leaving their ship and sold to a captain, James Doran , who was heading for the West Indies. He was later bought for forty pounds by a Quaker named Robert King of Montserrat. While undertaking commercial voyages for King he was able to do some trading on his own account, and saved enough to purchase his freedom in 1766.

The Victoria Press changed its focus from printing to publishing.

This interlude made her want seriously to become a nurse; but this idea horrified her parents, so instead she went on from her degree in literature to take a postgraduate course in education.

Her first employment was a summer job with a grocery chain, and no one, just no one would believe how awful it was . . . having to wear stockings all the time and smile every minute of the day.

Katharine took over the running of the Cooper household, which included bringing up from early childhood her niece Edith.