Hester Darby opened her own boarding-school in Chelsea, where her daughter Mary (later MR ) made her debut as a teacher.

Augusta Persse (later AG ) began on the first of three winters spent in Cannes nursing her invalid brother Richard .

During the years that she might have been at school, CH was kept heavily employed in doing the drudgery of the scullery. That was not all: Poor I got many a whipping for being awkward at supplying the place of a footman or waiter. Before leaving home she worked hard at making supplies of stockings and ruffles to last her brothers in her absence. She was not, of course, paid, though when William eventually won permission for her to move to England, he paid for a servant to replace her.

During their three years in remote western Ireland, HJ and her sister of necessity took on many new domestic duties, such as raising chickens and baking their own bread, but HJ still had sufficient time to write her first novel.

The young Jessie White supported herself in Paris by writing French-inspired articles and stories for the English market. She also taught.

Following her introduction to James Smith , CFA founded a Church Missionary Society auxiliary which, according to biographer Ernest Lovell , was something of an innovation in an Irish country parish.

During a cholera epidemic in Jamaica in 1850 (brought by sea from New Orleans) MAD with her mother and her sister Dora did the rounds every morning of the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica, to take into care those babies whose mothers had died during the night.

IB was known as an actress and singer in Sydney, Australia, before she emigrated to England. Her brother Darrell served as her accompanist for a recital in 1893.

Shortly after learning to read, Antoinette demonstrated a natural gift for writing. Her literary talent and passion for education corresponded with her childhood ambitions of becoming a teacher and opening her own school, and also, of course, the dream that became her lifelong pursuit, to be the first female minister.

EB entered six months' employment as a teacher at Law Hill school at Southowram outside Halifax.

After graduating, PSB planned an academic career in the USA. She went to work as a teaching assistant to her psychology professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College , as a step towards a scholarship for graduate work, but she stayed only a few months before returning to China, driven by news of revolutionary violence and a sharp decline in her mother's health.

As a child she kept her father's sheep and cattle on the rocks.

When she was old enough, Mary took over some of the instruction of the younger pupils at her father's school. From 1827 she worked as a governess and from 1829 as a teacher in a girls' school run by her mother and sisters.

Carrington produced decorative arts for the Omega Workshops (which Fry also started) in 1913. He asked for her help with restorations on Mantegna 's The Triumphs of Caesar at Hampton Court Palace in 1917.

In Paris LC created her seminal painting The Inn of the Dawn Horse, also known as Self-Portrait and (in 2017) held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She later reflected on her artistic affinities and her independence during this period with the Surrealists: I was working in a new place and alongside new people, wonderful new people, yet [t]hey were all doing their own thing. With Max , yes, I was nurtured a bit. But he was doing his own thing as well. They weren't that interested in me.

Beginning in the year in which she dramatically lost weight and began smoking, Angela Stalker (later Carter) worked as a journalist for papers in Croydon, Surrey, primarily the Croydon Advertiser.

Shadd returned in 1839 to Wilmington, where she opened a school for free black children. Throughout the 1840s she taught at black schools in a number of cities including West Chester, New York City, and Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Part of LAC 's growing up took place at Elizabeth 's court. While being groomed for a career there, she say that she was much beloved by that Renowned Queene Elizabeth. Moreover, she notes, there was as much hope and expectation of me as of any other young lady whatsoever. She took it hard when she was not allowed to be a pallbearer at the queen's funeral because, at thirteen, she was too short.

In LondonEE immersed herself in scholarly endeavours. She worked with her brother—first as his assistant, then as his colleague—on his ambitious editions of Old English manuscripts: her contribution included making beautiful, legible copies of original manuscripts. She even taught a servant boy Latin and Anglo-Saxon to train him as an assistant. This work did not pay. When EE later attempted to sell one of her brother's manuscripts to a publisher, he would offer nothing more than a few books as payment for the copyright.

After a brief, unsuccessful stint as a teacher, FF trained as an actress under actor-manager J. L. Toole .

Sarah Cheney (later SG ) made her first appearance on the London stage, before her marriage, as Congreve 's Miss Prue in Love for Love: A Comedy at Drury Lane .

MG 's first work experience was helping her father deliver newspapers and magazines, then running his journalistic copy from sports fields to the newspaper office: both jobs requiring self-reliance. Then, from the age of thirteen, she spent four years as pupil-teacher of primary-age children at St Michael's National School . She learned there that she liked teaching and was good at it (she soon gave up using the cane). Her testimonial from the headmaster when she completed her apprenticeship seemed to me an almost unbelievable instrument of praise.