Beginning in 1866, MG devoted several months to nursing an aunt who had also suffered a stroke. She remained with her aunt until the latter died the following year.

EG opened her career as an actress at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin, as the heroine in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, playing to the middle-aged Romeo of the manager, Thomas Sheridan .

By her marriage Lady Charlotte Guest entered not only a family but also a business: the Dowlais Iron Company , founded by her husband's grandfather, which under the management of John Guest grew to be the world's largest ironworks, with a payroll of more than 7,000 workers. Dowlais profited immensely from the railway boom: its iron rails were exported all across Europe and also to Russia and the USA. CG paid close attention to the welfare of her husband's workers: she set up and raised funds for three schools at Merthyr Tydfil as well as three elsewhere. More unusually for an owner's wife, she participated in running the business. She wrote business letters, helped to keep the accounts, sometimes accompanied her husband on business trips and sometimes dealt with situations at Dowlais in his absence. She took a keen interest in new technology, like a platform lift in a Manchester cotton mill or a steam saw at Dowlais for cutting iron rails (though she worried about its safety) or shipbuilding in iron at Millwall. She encountered women as labourers (Arthur Munby made sketches of some of the women workers at Dowlais), whom she approved so long as they were local single women and not working by night. She also encountered under-age children: of a little boy working underground (a job whose lower age-limit was supposed to be ten) who naively admitted to her that he was nearly nine, she resolved that he must be found a different, legal job, and not penalised for speaking the truth.

As a young woman Sarah Buell set up a school for young children, both female and male, where she taught, not the usual sewing, but reading, writing, and mathematics. It is said that she also taught some Latin, with which some of the parents were not best pleased.

From about the age of seven, Janet Thomson, later JH , kept house while her parents worked and was also expected to spin two hanks of yarn—560 yards each—a day.

MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician. A few years after this she accompanied her husband to war, and after she resumed work as a courtier, as one of the deputation sent to bring Princess Caroline of Brunswick to England to marry the Prince of Wales .

During her time in San DiegoBH characterised herself as not farming but ranching. She writes of how even an invalid can do a great deal of satisfactory work on a ranch. She can pick the lemons, oranges, olives, apricots, or peaches; she can sucker the trees; she can undertake the anxious task of pruning. She can superintend the curing of olives and lemons, and see after the packing and despatching of fruit.

The Bishop of Paris intervened to restore legality and seemliness. He persuaded Héloïse to become a nun, despatched Abelard to the monastery of St Denis, and suspended Fulbert's position as canon for some years.

While at St Germain, LLH attended the court of Mary Beatrice of Modena , but it does not appear that she held any official position there as her mother and sister did.

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford , was officially appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales .

Like her mother and the family friend Catherine Hutton, EH was skilled at decorative arts. She fashioned a miniature medallion, depicting Sterne 's sentimental character Maria, out of Hutton's hair.

EH began work in London: she taught, worked as a both a paid companion and a governess, and did secretarial work.

PH 's first job (after applying to Vogue and the New Yorker and being rejected, on the first occasion partly because she was not wearing a hat) was as editorial assistant to Ben Zion Goldberg at the Jewish publishing house FFF Publishers at twenty dollars a week, but she was laid off after a couple of months, and tended in later life to keep silent about this job. The month after that came a new job, at one-and-a-half times her previous salary, for Michel Publishers , a comic book outfit. Before she began writing for a living she made an attempt to keep herself as an artist, and worked as a painter and sculptor. Her various casual jobs in New York included being a saleswoman in a department store.

After finishing at RADA she began acting in small West End theatre productions, as well as in films and on television.

Once settled in Ireland, MCH set up a Protestant mission school, but her hope that the school could attract Catholic children by not seeking to convert them was frustrated by what she viewed as an unconquerable hatred of race between the native Irish and the English. While on the one hand the English proselytising authorities insisted on the Protestant faith being severely inculcated within the walls of the school-house, the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, on the other, demanded that emblems of Roman Catholicism be placed on the school walls.

From about 1786 AH became known as a London literary hostess, although her husband was too much of a workaholic to be clubbable. She took up the baton of bluestocking entertainment as the earliest generation were beginning to feel their years. William Beloe counted her as a leading bluestocking, but Caroline Grigson notes that she is mentioned very little in writings either by or about those at the centre of the group.

CH made almost all her own clothes throughout her life, as well as sewing household linen and working in patchwork, embroidery, and decorative arts. She was her father's housekeeper for twenty-six years and her own for twenty-nine; she worked in the kitchen and the garden; she nursed her mother through five years of illness, and her father through a general decline of similar length. Every night she sang and played the guitar for her father; for this purpose she transcribed 333 songs, musical notation and all. She never touched her guitar again after he died. With all this went reading, writing, walking, dancing, riding and travelling, and collecting autographs and costume illustrations. She was astonished in taking stock late in life to realise how much she had done: she wrote, I never was one moment unemployed when it was possible to be doing something.

To supplement her writing career, which was becoming increasingly profitable, JI took on the position of editor of Youth Magazine during the year 1857.

When Frances and Maria Jacson were faced with financial crisis in the 1790s, perhaps caused by their father's illness as well as their elder brother's bad behaviour, they eached turned to publication (fiction and science-writing respectively) in order to raise money.

EJ 's husband, Thomas , master printer, set up his shop in Mincing Lane, London.

EJ began her first job, as an assistant librarian at Oxford City Library .