A year or two later MR enjoyed teaching her elder daughter to read, according to her own avowedly eccentric methods, and soon after that she was devoting herself to both daughters as their sole attendant and instructor. She gave up most of her own pursuits in order to write books for them.

HHR 's first work experience was teaching, mornings only, at a private school at Toorak, just outside Melbourne, in 1888. This firmly persuaded her against teaching as a career.

In New York Rich began to teach: she had a graduate poetry course at Columbia University and taught with the SEEK literacy program at the City College (where her husband also taught).

Julian Bell recommended during the 1930s that the Hogarth Press should take KR on as an employee, but they did not follow his advice. She was for many years a lecturer at Morley College , London.

Stockdale had help from JP as an amanuensis while he was working on his memoirs; she also served during the years 1804-5 as his companion and even his nurse. He dedicated the memoirs to her, but the financial reward she expected never materialised.

From the age of seventeen CEP served as her father's housekeeper.

Both sisters acted at their father's private theatre in Norwich, on 4 and 6 January 1791, in a production of Amelia's tragedy Adelaide.

Besides this visiting of the homes of the originally poor, EJP enjoyed embroidery and was also a skilled painter of flowers. She took an interest in the artistic productions of her pre-Raphaelite contemporaries.

The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that she had been his first encourager and her house at Wilton his best Schoole. She seems to have entertained writers at most of her husband's houses. Her brother Philip spent much time in his final decade with her at Wilton and Ivychurch. Her critic Gary Waller thinks that she and her brother set out to instigate a revival of English aristocratic culture. Her biographer Margaret Hannay , however, thinks that rather than seeking out famous authors to patronise (except Spenser ), she fostered the practice of writing in those around her, including but not exclusively professed poets. The notion of the Countess of Pembroke as a literary hostess and influencer of literary movements has been powerful both for sympathisers (she is another source for Woolf 's Orlando) and for hostile critics.

CP determined to become a poet from an early age. Edward Moxon published his first collection, Poems, in 1844. His father's financial ruin led him also to undertake more lucrative work as an essayist and reviewer. He published more than two hundred essays, ranging in topic from literature and philosophy to art and architecture. After his religious conversion, he wrote several essays on Roman Catholic history and theology.

IP says she got my bread for fourteen years at her birthplace.

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many of her generation participated in the great change when the historically all-male colleges first admitted women. She was elected the first woman Fellow, or senior member, of Wadham , an appointment which necessitated the college changing its statutes. In 1980 she was appointed to a lectureship in classics at Birkbeck , the college of London University catering to part-time students. She held this position until 1984, when she resigned in order to write full-time. She has also taught at several other Oxford and at Cambridge colleges, at Princeton University and at Buenos Aires University . Her earlier university jobs were in departments of classics, and since then she has preferred to be a writer in residence rather than an instructor in creative writing.

The young Amelia Alderson possessed confidence or enterprise. On 4 and 6 January 1791 she took the lead in her own tragedy, Adelaide, at the private theatre belonging to the Plumptre girls' father. The Plumptre sisters took supporting roles.

Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at her PhD at Wolverhampton she was also employed as a research assistant. Her first London jobs were as a hotel receptionist and a live-in maid. She was a creative writing fellow at the University of East Anglia , 1982-3, and became a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex in 1986. In 1989 she was one of the judges for the Booker Prize and in 1996 she was Northern Arts writer in residence at Northumbria University in Newcastle. On the Booker Prize panel in 1989 she succeeded (with Helen McNeil ) in keeping Martin Amis 's London Fields off the shortlist. (The eventual vote for Kazuo Ishiguro 's The Remains of the Day was almost unanimous.)

SFG was appointed gouverneur to the sons of the duc and duchesse de Chartres (three years before her employer, who was also her lover, became duc d'Orléans).

EG 's reviewing of German literature for the Times and her other periodical writing were undertaken as pastimes.

As an adolescent, Anne Hart (later AHG ) had cared for the black slave labourers on her father's estate as well as for her siblings. Before her marriage she established and ran Female Refuge Societies, Benevolent Institutions, and Sunday Schools, especially for blacks. These charitable activities roused the disapproval of local white society. She may also have been a professional, paid teacher.

WG 's diary, begun on 4 April 1788 and kept until a fortnight before his death, consists largely of names and the barest of facts. Nevertheless it forms a valuable record of the movements of leading individuals of the British radical tendency at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. Since 2010 it has been available online through the Bodleian Library .

She became an amateur artist specialising in etchings, and also composed music.

AG herself farmed in harsh conditions, looking after a dozen cows and a couple of hundred sheep. (Her husband, with his parish to see to, was uninvolved with the farm work.) Making what she called an experiment on my mountain nymphs, she brought up her children to speak entirely Gaelic until they were four or five. English came later. She attributed her success in getting herelf accepted by the local people largely to the counsel of a most worthy and sensible mother-in-law.

During this difficult period, 1826-1827, EG and her sister Mary were almost the salvation of their family through the money they earned by writing for periodicals.

While at Ovingham, she became interested in helping the poor. She began giving lessons to the daughters of respectable but impoverished families in French and other general subjects. She also taught Sunday school classes.