JL 's first position was in the house of the Rev. Mr Johnstone; she moved with his family to Glasgow. Her later service jobs included working as a chambermaid for Frances Anna Dunlop and also for Susan Henri (variously spelled), Dunlop's daughter, who was renting Loudoun Castle. Dunlop also describes Little as a bairn's-woman or nursemaid; at Loudoun JL took over the dairy, earning her nickname of Milkmaid.

NL began teaching history and literature at Guildhall Feoffment Girls' School in Bury St Edmunds.

The young Jane Webb served as housekeeper for her father. On one occasion he invited three guests to dinner on the spur of the moment and there was no food in the house. She had a chicken killed and produced a makeshift meal, but afterwards she never omitted to keep a large joint of cold meat in stock, just in case. She also never forgot what she suffered on that occasion. After her father died, when she was seventeen, she found that it would be necessary to do something for my support, and she turned to writing and publishing.

In Liverpool, CL took up a position as stage manager at the Everyman Theatre , where her husband was director. Some of her early plays were performed by this theatre group.

One reason for her year in London was her need, as a writer, to use the collections at the British Museum (now the British Library).

TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the 1832 Reform Bill (his two major speeches on parliamentary reform achieved the status of classics) and helped strengthen the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1834. His subsequent work for the Supreme Council of India greatly influenced British colonial policy in India, where he thought future stability lay in creating a class of Indians thoroughly educated in English language and culture.

SM did a lot of work for the poor in the East End of London when she was not travelling.

SM worked as a freelance academic researcher at Oxford until the year after her marriage, then as a freelance journalist, writer, and lecturer. From the time her first novel won the Somerset Maugham Prize, she has been pretty much a full-time writer.

AM became a teacher to her younger brothers and sisters.

EM , having left school at fourteen or fifteen, began work as a stenographer at Charles F. Higham Limited , an advertising agency.

While she was a student HM earned a little money as an experimental subject for trainee psychologists, doing tests on word association and memory.

It may have been as an undergraduate that CM began writing work that was later published. His several translations from Latin included love-poetry by Ovid . He soon moved on from poetry to drama, and was writing plays for the London stage. In late 1592 there appeared in a work by Thomas Watson (recently deceased) a Latin dedication almost certainly by Marlowe to the Countess of Pembroke . His tragedies, with their soaring, purposely excessive style and shockingly extreme behaviour, continue to be powerful on stage.

Unlike her father, she travelled as a performer. On this tour she alternated a one-woman show called Love Letters (in which she played the piano and sang as well as speaking) and a feminist piece called Women of the Future (1991); or, What shall We Do with Our Men? For the latter she wore a costume which was eye-catching (brilliant red, with a short skirt showing off white stockings and frivolous slippers) and mock-masculine (an academic mortar-board perched on a fluffy hairdo).

AM later boasted that she had educated her elder daughters entirely herself, though they had then given her some help in teaching the younger ones. She wrote that she also grounded well her only Boy before he began attending school.

Having been an avid writer since she was very young, CM decided to issue her first published work, The Victory Won, anonymously. She went on to publish many more works, primarily biographies, memoirs, and religious texts. Her books were distributed far and wide to many countries, and she became well-known and praised as a philanthropist and an accomplished author.

During the time of the Irish famine, first with her father and by herself following his death, MM strove to relieve conditions for the family's tenants. Her efforts garnered her the nickname of the Princess of Connemara. Tenants were given food and clothes, and several hundred were given employment.

While attending Sherborne School for Girls, the fifteen-year-old CMW won a talent contest organized by Vogue; the winner was awarded fifty pounds and the chance to work on the magazine. In an interview with the Scottish Review of Books, CMW claims that winning the contest was a tremendous accident, a punt, so I had no idea of the world I was going to. I was just a tall Scots girl in pigtails. Though she was unable to start her work on the magazine until after she attended university, she writes that winning the Vogue Talent Contest was, simultaneously, an incomparable entry into an impenetrable world and a golden opportunity, as well as a reason not to become an academic or a teacher and then it led to many of the things that are worst about, and worst for, me.

MM then followed Benedict into the male-dominated field of academic anthropology. She wrote that she chose this field because I felt the research was urgent and the application to current social problems was visible and compelling.

During the first world war, VM worked for the Women's Emergency Corps as a typist.

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven or eight years, and very quickly became involved as well in writing and publishing polemical pamphlets; the earliest subject he tackled in this genre was the vexed issue about the Church of England and its relationship with the state through its governance by bishops and archbishops.