Some of her jobs after leaving highschool were alienatingly bourgeois, like working in an antiquarian bookstore. Other casual paid work was less important in her life than her speaking on behalf of the Young Communist League . As she became more politically engaged she taught fellow students at a school run by Paul Cline and Harry Winston for working-class activists. Back in California, she worked as a secretary to her husband, Abe Goldfarb , when he got a job with FDR 's new Civil Works Administration .

GA and her mother were running a small private boarding school in Hackney for boys aged four to ten; subjects included Religion, English, and Hebrew.

LMA began working at an early age to help support her family. She accepted whatever she could find and worked as a governess, editor, teacher, seamstress, paid companion, and domestic. It was her work as a writer, however, that finally led her family to financial security.

After receiving her BA, Alderson worked as a personal assistant at a publishing firm specializing in children's books. Next came an editorial job with an international law firm, which employed her first in London, then in New York.

MA 's aunt Maud Hughes gave Margery her start in journalism, writing movie reviews for Girls' Cinema. This soon became regular employment, bringing her in up to £50 a month. As well as working for Hughes, she contributed regularly to a group of periodicals and magazines owned by Thomson of Dundee.

Before, during, and after this phase of her studies, Anna Livia worked variously as a catering assistant, bus conductor, dispatch rider, database manager, and cabaret dresser.

An ex-pacifist when the second world war broke out, DA recoiled from joining the forces or undertaking other war work, but eventually got an office job (the merest fetching and carrying) with the BBC at its temporary headquarters in Bath. Then, after a dreadful interlude teaching at a village school which was swamped in evacuees from London, she rejoined the BBC, first at Evesham and then back in London, latterly as a researcher. At one point she was earning five pounds a week; by 1945 this had risen to £388 a year. At that point André Deutsch offered her five hundred a year (which turned out in the end to be an overestimate, not reached in reality till somewhat later) to join him in his own publishing company. She thus became from 1946 an editor for Deutsch at Allan Wingate Ltd , the first publishing house which he set up on the ridiculously insufficient capital of three thousand pounds. Used envelopes were recycled with stickers, and deliveries were made around London in Deutsch's car. A board of directors was haphazardly accumulated and developed violent disagreements.

AA enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum and the Royal Society . She became a pioneer in the field of photography. A member of the Botanical Society of London , she made a major contribution by undertaking the first serious application of photography to science by making photograms of her extensive collection of algae.AA was also an innovative illustrator and lithographer, who used the cyanotype process in her work.

Back in Toronto between periods of study, MA took a job in 1963 with a market research company, and then taught at the University of British Columbia , 1964-5. After this she taught briefly at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and York University , Toronto. She was Writer in Residence at the University of Toronto in 1972-3, and has since held several other Writer in Residence positions in the USA and one at Macquarie University , Australia.

PA managed a family trading business for a decade or so while her husband was away following his military career. In 1702 she had a share or investment in a salvaging expedition to the Caribbean.

On their conversion, AA and her husband both became preachers. George Fox mentions John's ministry and his preaching that same year.

By the time of her marriage she had already written and published some of her devotional works and poetry.

IB was highly skilled in the design of knitting and embroidery.

This was when she took up a position as governess to the family of Lady Frances Beresford in Exeter. Some of her friends felt her lofty and unaccommodating mind made her unlikely to succeed at managing patronage relationships. Robert Anderson in particular urged her against the pride which would put literary ambition before self-sufficiency. The more sympathetic saw her willingness to work as possibly even more admirable than her writing. She may have continued with such work after returning north. Lady Frances evidently retained kindly feelings about her, since after Bannerman's death she contributed twenty-two pounds to paying off her debts (though she advised a friend against saving her letters).

Here she practised medicine; a book printed by Benjamin Crayle , her first publisher, advertises Dr Barker's Famous Gout Plaister. Actually prescribing medication, as Barker writes that she did, was for a woman a highly unorthodox—and risky—proceeding which could have landed her before the authorities (as Judith Drake was landed in 1723). It is now not possible to know for certain whether Barker practised as an amateur or took money (five shillings for a roll of plaster) for her expertise, but the latter seems the more likely.

NCB began to host literary gatherings on Friday evenings from five to eight p.m. at 20 rue Jacob in the Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris. The salon continued for sixty years.

He then taught for a term at Campbell College in Belfast (a well-known grammar school) before taking up an English-teaching position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He later also taught at Trinity College, Dublin , before deciding that the way to earn his living was by one kind or another of writing. During the second world war he was first an underground Resistance activist and then a farm labourer. After the war he worked in various capacities for the Irish Red Cross in France.

At this time, in the 1930s, SB supported herself for a while by teaching English in London to German-Jewish refugees, wise professional and business people, even tycoons. Her responsibility was to get their English up to the standard required for entry to the USA. The price she charged ranged from half a crown to seven shillings for an hour's lesson. Immediately before the Second World War she did volunteer work with refugees in Paris.

AMB worked at various gruelling lower-class jobs. She kept a slop-shop in Wych Street, London, and a chandler's shop in Whitechapel; she was also employed as matron of a workhouse.

MFB was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist, a status she maintained until her death. Her journalism shared characteristics with the innovations of New Journalism, and both her standing and her output placed her alongside other noted women journalists like Harriet Martineau and Frances Cobbe .William Thomas Stead , identified by Matthew Arnold as the archetypal editor of the New Journalism, referred to this transformation in late nineteenth-century journalistic practice as the medium for democracy.MFB 's career in journalism adopted, advanced, and helped popularize the innovations of New Journalism first demonstrated by Stead, including the editor's role as marshalling the public . . . cross heads, interviews, bold headlines, illustration, indices, and specials.

In the year of her society debut Caroline got a job as a journalist on Picture Post. This lively, popular magazine, a pioneer of photojournalism, was then at the peak of its circulation, but shortly to be brought down by the mismatch between the socialism of its editor (Tom Hopkinson , ex-husband of Antonia White ) and the conservatism of its publisher, the Hulton Press .CB reported on anything and everything from politics to horse-racing and suffered the valuable experience of having her work regularly pulled apart by editors. Later she worked briefly as a fashion model.

She first became a published writer in 1869 while still in Ireland. She appears to have used the pen-name E. Owens Blackburne throughout her literary career, taking it from her grandfather.

Publishers for whom Blake worked as an engraver included the radical Joseph Johnson , friend of Wollstonecraft and others. His wife, Catherine , became for practical purposes a partner in his printing and publishing business. For his own literary and visual works he developed his unique method of illuminated printing, in which the letter-press is engraved, and hand-colouring makes every copy different. Phenomenally productive, he left a large oeuvre of paintings and illustrations both to his own poetry and the writings of others.