Beginning on the English stage as an actor (first of all under the protection of a pseudonym), he quickly became known as a playwright after his first play was staged in 1841. Extremely prolific, he wrote almost two hundred plays during his career, including adaptations and translations. He also worked as a producer and theatre manager. His plays reflected the flamboyant character of his public personality. Often adapted from existing works, they came increasingly to feature melodrama and spectacle.

Dorothy Havers (later DB ) worked at All The Year Round (which, since the death of Charles Dickens , was under the editorship of his son and namesake).

In London LBL nursed the wounded during the First World War, then took up social activism. She was for years the head of the Women's Voluntary Service . During the Second World War, while keeping on when possible with her writing, she worked at nursing, organizing relief services and work with refugees and evacuee children. The Feminist Companion notes her activity in clearing bomb sites and tending to the wounded. She was nurse, doctor's assistant, ambulance helper, welfare worker, tea-maker—anything that came along. She also provided a house of respite for East End children at Duncote Hall in Northamptonshire,adopted two Polish refugees and used her influence (with the Queen Mother and Anthony Eden in particular) to make known the wartime struggles and suffering of London's working class. She helped Anna Freud to care for children traumatized by bombing, at a Hampstead clinic.

AB remained silent about her brief foray into paid work, as a governess. At Bolton Le Moors she began keeping house for her brother Walter. She worked as a conservationist to preserve various monuments, and as a tireless committee woman on behalf of the YWCA and of Coventry Cathedral. In 1914 she was elected to the committee of Coventry's Natural History and Scientific Society . Walter became a Vice-President of the society at this time, and later she became its first woman Vice-President. This led in turn to her becoming a founder member of the Coventry City Guild . The guild concerned itself with the preservation of history: AB (a great collector of objects) donated to its museum a pair of gloves worn by George Eliot . During the First World War it managed a scheme for growing vegetables in allotments, while AB herself worked in a creche for the children of munitions workers. In 1924, at her urging, the guild established an annual Education Week.

She conceived an ambition to become an actress, which Crossley-Seymour supposed would doubtless have proved her ruin, had not Mr. Brooke hurried her from a scene so destructive to the happiness, and so pernicious to the morals of the youthful mind. Later she turned to charity, and established a school at Longford for which she wrote her religious dialogues for children.

She had a specific object: to further her husband's career.

After her Oxford career was cut short, BB turned to earning her living by means of the shorthand and typing which she had learned before it.

In 1802 Henry Brougham helped to found the Edinburgh Review; he became a regular contributor to this reigning Whig periodical. To the first twenty numbers he contributed eighty articles on subjects ranging from science through colonial policy to poetry.

From the age of fifteen, Mary Balfour acted as housekeeper to her father. Shortly before her marriage, her godmother (Viscountess Wentworth, formerly Countess Ligonier) invited her come to London to live with her, but Mary declined the offer.

JB supported himself during his studies by writing, particularly journalism. He worked as a barrister, then in October 1901 travelled to South Africa to work both as a legal advisor and as a sort of political Private Secretary. His career as a public servant had begun.

With the very much reduced income that resulted from losing his allowance, he turned to writing novels and plays as a means of making a living.

JB joined the New Model Army in November 1644, before his sixteenth birthday, and served as a soldier for two and a half years, an experience which, says the ODNB, must have been grim. After leaving the army he began to practise his trade as a tinker, tin-worker, or pot-mender. Some years later he became a preacher, and even before his time in prison he had begun to write and publish.

The recently widowed Lady Charlotte Campbell (later LCB ) served as Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess of Wales (wife of the Prince Regent, later Queen Caroline).

After Marie Souvestre moved Les Ruches to England (renaming it Allenswood and locating it in Wimbledon Park, near London), Dorothy Strachey became one of her staff at this new incarnation of her own old school. The move had been made with the support of Lady Strachey , who sent Pernel and Marjorie to Allenswood and encouraged members of her extended circle (Pattles, Ritchies, Tennysons and Thackerays) to do the same with their daughters.

ASB began teaching at Westminster Tutors , a cramming establishment preparing students, mostly girls, for university entrance. She taught there till 1965, and one of her colleagues was Penelope Fitzgerald .

KC co-founded the Royal District Nursing Service , which provided at-home medical consultation and care to families in Melbourne, Australia.

RNC was on the staff of the Girl's Own Paper.

The hostile story which has her establishing herself as a confidence trickster, using her sexual charms to prey on men in the manner of fictional characters like her avowed disciple Defoe 's Roxana, is borne out by her own account of her dealings with the Carletons. The chief difference between her story and those told by others is that the legend has her usually duping the old and spectacularly rich, rather than a young man of the middling ranks.

Under his pseudonym, LC published a poem in the periodical The Train in 1856. In 1861, he was ordained a deacon but decided not to enter the clergy because of his stammer. He remained at Christ Church , lecturing on mathematics and publishing works on the subject under his own name. He was a public opponent of vivisection.

AC has taught at universities across North America. She is currently, in 2015, teaching at Bard College in New York State. She began her teaching career at the University of Calgary , and has also taught at New York University , the University of Michigan ,McGill University , the University of California at Berkeley ,Emory University , and Princeton University .

MC began working as a servant when she was thirteen; she had several employers before going to work for the Cobbold family, who lived near St Margaret's Green in Ipswich. Though this household at one time or another contained John Cobbold , fourteen children by his first wife, and six by his second, the writer Elizabeth Cobbold , it is unclear how many were resident there when Margaret went to work for them. Margaret was in fact five years older than her employer Elizabeth Cobbold. She worked in this household as a cook for about eighteen months.

Even while attending high-school WC was sometimes employed: to mind her father's office, for instance, while he was away or copying documents at the court house. Travelling on their rounds with the local doctors and listening to their talk, she was sometimes called on to fill the function of a nurse.

From the time of her mother's death in 1643 LJC was effectively head of the family and manager of the estates at Welbeck and Bolsover, which then included a small royalist garrison at the former. She assumed this responsibility officially only after her father and brothers went into exile abroad.