Before she gave up other work to become a full-time writer in 1990, MB worked in computer programming, databases, and software. She went to work in 1983 as a programmer for Reuters in London; they gave her a position as database manager in 1986 after she had spent a year as a software specialist with Digital Equipment . In her spare time she was a volunteer reader in a south London primary school. But she became more and more unhappy in the computing industry because of her frustrated desire to write.

RDB was called to the bar in 1852, but epilepsy countered his professional aspirations. As a result, he moved to the country and worked as a teacher. In 1857 an inheritance allowed him to buy land and become a fruit grower.

IB 's charitable nature was evident in her tendency to abandon her writing in order to help friends when they were in need of a nurse or companion.

BB supported herself as a widow by teaching at her own small school. This was apparently a going concern, until after her conversion and her call to the Quaker ministry the parents of her pupils objected to her preaching and to her adoption of Quaker costume and speech (using, for instance, thee and thou) and withdrew their children, causing the school to fail.

Lady Blessington became one of the most brilliant hostesses of her time, a facilitator of fruitful contact between prominent people of influence in society.

MB had some success in 1869 and 1870 as a lecturer on literary topics.

He became an independent bookseller, opening his first London bookshop in 1831. Also a scholar, publisher, and translator, he published several of his own bibliographic works and compiled a Dictionary of Quotations. HGB published several series, including the Standard Library.

In her early teens, MB began earning money as a research assistant at the British Museum , a job which encouraged her interest in historical research and her hope for a career in writing. She was excited at her earnings, even though they were small (amounts such as half a crown, seven and sixpence, five shillings) and she had to hand them over immediately to her mother. She was elated when a piece of work she did on commission was praised and she earned the significant sum of £5.

By the 1820s CB was well established as a writer for the magazines. As well as that, she was also an accomplished artist, working in water-colour and oil. She contributed illustrations for her own publications and had several paintings, such as A Country Ball and Packing Up After the Ball, engraved and circulated as prints.

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied that she was an influence on him. As an Anglican clergyman, who in 1818 became chaplain to the Prince Regent , he published, in addition to poetry ecclesiastical and antiquarian works. His edition of Alexander Pope , 1806, took a line avowedly hostile to the style not only of Pope but of Augustan poetry in general.

Money from subscriptions enabled her to open, in 1732, and to run a pamphlet and stationery shop in the present Wardour Street, which supported both her and her mother. She may have also have run a business selling sausages and other provisions.

He was a Quaker who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway guides had ever been produced for the stage-coach network. The first timetabled train service, that of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , had opened nine years before this, on 15 September 1830. Guides bearing Bradshaw's name continued to be published past the middle of the twentieth century.

HB and her elder sister Mary ran a school in Norwich (said to be of above average standard). Hannah's commitment to the school continued while she began acting in Norwich.

In this situation she not only cared for her younger sisters (Hedda had a back problem, too), but also began to take a serious interest in the lives of the poor people living close to her at Årsta. She made visits on foot, dispensed advice, concocted and administered herbal remedies. She felt that communion with nature, and looking bad things in the face, had stabilized the mental turmoil of her adolescence. She determined on a life of service, and dreamed for a time of becoming a nurse. She also at this time took the first steps towards her actual career as a writer.

AB worked at two of the occupations open to women above the working class: writing for publication and doing needlework, to the detriment of her eyesight.

AB was a distinguished art historian.

Throughout this period she was considered to be at the height of her success, not only because of her sterling committee work. Her authorship of A Superfluous Woman, which had become a best-seller, had been revealed, and the Fabian News had endorsed her new and more socialist-oriented novel Transition. A Novel.

On the outbreak of World War One, RB enlisted promptly as a naval officer.

FB lived by her writing, working as a journalist, reviewer, and poet for a number of publications.

He received his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1833 and later established a successful medical practice in that city. He was also a noted essayist, writing on the medical profession, poetry, and art, as well as about dogs. The title of his best-known work, Horæ Subsecivæ (in three series, 1858-82), means Leisure Hours in Latin, and has been used by a number of classically-minded writers of belles lettres. He also published on literary figures including in 1863 an account of the child writer Marjorie Fleming , who died the year following Brown's birth. His writings were enormously popular.

Mary Ann now went out to work as a district visitor (in order that they should be able to afford to keep her brother at Dublin University). This, though it may have felt demeaning at the time, supplied a breadth of life experience which fed her poetry.

RB began his literary career as a poet inauspiciously with Pauline (1833), but with Paracelsus (1835) began to achieve some critical success. He entered literary society under the patronage of W. J. Fox , and through Mary Cowden Clarke met Edward Moxon , who became his publisher. He also became acquainted with Harriet Martineau , who offered him advice on his writing. He was a gregarious man, if sometimes prickly, and became very widely connected.RB achieved popular recognition if not widespread popularity with later works such as Men and Women, Dramatis Personae, and The Ring and the Book. All of these exemplify the dramatic monologues and dialogues for which he is best known.