Naomi Haldane (later NM ) worked briefly at St Thomas's Hospital in London as a VAD (volunteer auxiliary nurse), which would have been a wage-earning job in peace-time.

DM 's first job after her BA was as a librarian at Oxford University Press , 1970-72. While in Pakistan she worked as a teacher and also did freelance writing during 1972-74.

Managing her households, and managing the estates that went with them (as well as exercising her taste as an interior decorator on the grand scale), were major commitments. Sandleford alone employed a staff of thirty. As late as 1792, EM , as hostess, was still holding grand public breakfasts at Portman Square for four hundred or five hundred people.

LMM spent this year teaching at Bideford, Prince Edward Island

TM inaugurated his publishing career with his translation Odes of Anacreon (1800). 1801 saw the appearance of his successful collection The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little, under a pseudonym which is also a bawdy double-entendre. Francis Rawdon Hastings, Earl of Moira , became a career-long patron of his work from the time of this publication, and was joined in his encouragement of TM by Lord Lansdowne .

In Melbourne, Australia, EM supported herself and her son by taking odd jobs and writing stories and articles. Besides working as an editor, she chose jobs involving house upkeep: decorating, gardening, and housekeeping.

Following her year at London University, Penelope Fletcher took a secretarial position, which she left after three weeks in order to get married.

Following an illness that incapacitated their father, and with the encouragement of local MP George Staunton , CM and her sister Marion were able to provide financial support to their family through sales of their first book. This encouraged them to pursue writing more seriously.

Henrietta Rouviere began writing and publishing, for her own enjoyment, well before her marriage. She may also had a brief career as an actress, if she was the Miss Rouviere who made her debut at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in the 1801-2 season. During the years of her husband's illness, as well as writing for money, she advertised for other paid work, but apparently without success. In early January 1827 she was hoping that she might get a small post in some government department, although she mentioned that her impaired health might tell against her.

She became a teacher as well as an author.

She became an active philanthropist while she was still living in Birmingham. She interested herself in the Home for Friendless Girls in Bristol Street, where for a time she taught reading, writing, and arithmetic.

JHN had in 1843 resigned from his position as Vicar of St Mary's, Oxford, the influential University Church.

While working on her B. Litt at Oxford, ENC began teaching Renaissance literature at Trinity College , Dublin, where she later served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. She remained one of a minority of female fellows.

Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena . While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of the French court at Versailles.

In London early in her marriage, KM found employment as a social worker in poor areas, spending nearly two years investigating the results of play-therapy used with East End children. She was astounded at the high rate of good results and played them down in [her] reports, but she later concluded that social workers and their clients collude together to produce the desired results. She also worked as a clinical psychologist, work which she was still doing immediately before the second world war.

After her sister-in-law died, CGOB looked after the children of her widowed brother Edward until his remarriage.

FOC worked as a teaching assistant while she studied for her MFA, but she put most of her energies into her potential future as a writer. She applied for several college teaching positions, just in case, but she did not want to be a teacher. Meanwhile she achieved a summer residency at the Yaddo artists' colony at Saratoga Springs, New York, an appointment which was later extended to the end of the year. She stayed at Yaddo until it was shaken by internal disagreement and outside investigation by the open Communist Party membership of a long-time resident, Agnes Smedley , since in 1949 the USA was in the grip of anti-Communist fervour.

During the separation year she did supply teaching in London (calling herself Miss Whelan), experiencing schools from a pretentious private outfit in St Albans to a rough one on the Mile End Road. She also worked as a short-order cook at the Moo Cow Milk Bar opposite Victoria Station, then combined teaching with well-paid translating for the intergovernmental Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and at her father's urging began to write. She finished the Strasbourg job in May 1957.

During the First World War CO became, first a probationer nurse at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, then a nurse at the front.

VA opened an antique shop in Lower Frome Vauchurch, where she lived with Sylvia Townsend Warner .

During the struggle for American independence, AA ran the family farm at Braintree in her husband's absence. When British soldiers turned up on her property she showed great courage and presence of mind in repelling them. She was an excellent businesswoman, as Woody Holton 's biography, 2009, demonstrates from her financial records and her investing history.

A journalist and later an academic historian, HBA wrote essays on American politics, produced two biographies, worked as an editor, and published two anonymous or pseudonymous novels. Following his death, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography.