MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from 1970 to 1975.

Before she married, EW had charge of petty Cash for her father's business (dealing in drugs and tobacco). He trusted her absolutely with sums of a hundred pounds or more, never himself checking her disbursements.

In SarniaALW and her sisters ran a young ladies' private school. After some years Isabella and Frances died, and ALW was obliged to close the school.

Lucy Colquhoun (later Walford) had two paintings exhibited at the Scottish Academy . One of her earliest works, Herring-boat becalmed in Mist, was advertised in a local newspaper, much to her delight. An anonymous buyer made an offer, but was ultimately refused. LW abandoned painting after several years of exhibiting, for the sake of her still secret desire to write.

By 1537 (the year after the divorced Catherine of Aragon died) Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) held a position at Court as gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She was to acquire greater importance at Court later on. After Queen Jane Seymour died that year she stayed in a private, court-connected household with other young ladies waiting for a new queen to be chosen.

After the first trauma of an auction when she was nine, she was repeatedly sold. Having grown up on a Dutch farm she was sometimes beaten for not speaking English well enough. Like the free English labourer Mary Collier before her, she often worked in the fields all day and then at laundry and household cleaning at night.

Frances Eleanor Ternan (later FET ), her sisters Maria and Ellen , and her mother Frances , performed with Dickens in Wilkie Collins 's The Frozen Deep, which opened at the New Free Trade Hall in Manchester.

In 1834, AT began working at the General Post Office . He had a troublesome start there: he was habitually late, his pay was often docked, and he was [a]lways on the eve of being dismissed. With this clerking job, AT yearned to write. In July 1841, he volunteered for a transfer to Ireland. His salary there was around 100 pounds a year, but he earned 15 additional shillings per day for living abroad and sixpence for every mile he travelled. Since travel was half the cost in Ireland that it was in London, his annual income rose to 400 pounds. He described this as the first good fortune of my life. He also showed remarkable competence in a managerial position.

Following in her father's footsteps, she won a second prize for her drawing from the Society for Promoting Arts .

Her first job following her BA degree was as a teacher of French and history in a primary school for two years. For another year she was a publisher's editor at British Printing Corporation Publications in London.

Violet Keppel (later VT ) served briefly at a Grosvenor Gardens soldiers' canteen—until she was let go for confusing cocoa and cleaning powder.

In 1646 AT was living as companion to a lady in Aldgate.

CPT looked for various ways to make money to support the family because Thomas was repeatedly denied a government posting, and his mental troubles pushed her into the role of family breadwinner. She was by turns a schoolteacher, a nurse, a midwife, an herbalist, and a farmer.

ST 's earliest jobs were unskilled ones: she worked as a petrol pump attendant and as what is now called a barrista but was then just making the drinks in a café.

He left school at sixteen and found a job with the South Wales Daily Post. He did not shine in this setting, any more than at school, and the paper let him go at the end of the same year, 1932.

Deborah Aldrich-Watson , editor of the miscellany compiled by GT 's sister Constance, believes that one of the handwritings most richly represented in it, which she calls Hand B, was Gertrude's. If so, Gertrude also transcribed another collection of twelve poems for the family of a Thomas Fairfax who lived at Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire.

WMT lacked direction on his return from Germany. As well as studying law he purchased, early in 1833, a weekly called the National Standard. He was for ten months its proprietor and a major contributor. The paper then failed, but it had given him into the Garrick Club and London literary society in general. He lived in Paris as a journalist and apprentice artist, but discovered that he did not have sufficient talent for the latter. By the summer of 1835 his inheritance was largely gone after a series of bank collapses in India, and he found himself disenchanted with his own bohemian lifestyle, lack of prospects, and heavy gambling.

AT became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth , who had died that April.

JT was teaching a happy, well-regulated Sunday School in Lavenham in Suffolk by 1790, and went on with Sunday-school teaching all her life.

On 14 May 1849 HT returned to John Taylor 's home, where she nursed him for two months during the final stages of his terminal cancer.

At this time he abandoned his dream of pursuing classical music as a career, because public performance made him intensely nervous. Instead, he read Ibsen and began, for the first time, writing a play of his own.

ACS is a major Victorian poet and a prominent member of the aesthetic movement (also known as art for art's sake) who enjoyed great popularity and influence. In several ways (his exploration of sexuality, his internationalism), he is a precursor of the modernists (though T. S. Eliot , for instance, frowned on what he thought of as his over-musical style and his immaturity). His poetry gives voice to his great love of nature, his strong political beliefs, his sexual radicalism, his erotic obsessions.

LAS became a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth in 1588, but with unspoken restrictions on her conduct. She was quite soon dismissed for infringing them.