MW worked as companion to a Mrs Dawson, who spent most of her time at Bath and Windsor.

During her teens AW began teaching elocution lessons with her mother. She taught young children to sing, act, and recite. She also wrote plays for the children to perform. The business became quite lucrative, and was soon earning the mother and daughter about $1,200 a year.

Eirene Botting (later AW ) worked for six months as a governess for the Latteys, a wealthy Catholic family in Worcester.

Cicily had played major roles in school plays, and was encouraged to audition for the Academy of Dramatic Art by a well-known acting teacher, Rosina Filippi , who saw her perform in a charity show.

As a friend of Platts-Mills, Clive, and other left-wing young people, she did volunteer work at a London soup kitchen, dispensing food to destitute unemployed miners.

Princess Alexandrina Victoria became patron of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , along with her mother, the Duchess of Kent .

HT began painting and photographing the palace of the Mughal Emperor , where she stayed following the British victory, because the buildings were scheduled for demolition.

Instead of taking up her university scholarship, PLT went to work. First Aunt Ellie wangled her a secretarial job for which she had to fake competence in maths. Then she managed to get permission to join a dance troupe performing The Sleeping Beauty. In 1920 she was taken on by Wilkie 'sShakespearean company, at two pounds a week to understudy, and then to debut in March 1921 as Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and soon afterwards was allowed to tour in repertory. Soon she was earning four pounds a week and was mentioned in some reviews. She also worked as a cashier for the Australian Gas and Light Company , a dressmaker, and a reporter.

At twenty-five, despite her mother 's disapproval, HT set out to attempt a career as an intellectual actress.

The future HS and her sisters worked alongside their father at the WellingtonPost Office until his retirement. Without their help he could not have run this important central office.

During her adolescence music was even more important to AS than literature. She became a part-time cello teacher in England, and she played in a string orchestra affiliated with Cambridge University .

While ES was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design . This was Walter Deverell , whose son of the same name was attached to the group. She worked as a model for various members of the PRB including Deverell and William Holman Hunt . ES , when she modelled, attended artists' studios alone and was paid; Christina Rossetti was accompanied by her mother and posed gratis. This marks how far modelling was a job for ES .

ES had arranged before leaving home for London for a single pupil, whom she was to teach every day. (She had already been teaching village lads in Buckinghamshire.) She was soon lecturing in London schools as well as coaching private pupils, and writing in the evening by candlelight after the gas was turned off at 11 p.m. Her writing career became gradually better and better established. After a year's absence from London and from earning, to live with her mother after her father's death, she decided not to start again from scratch building a teaching connection, but to work as a journalist instead.

By the age of twelve, MS was her mother's assistant in medical care of officers and their wives who were stationed near Kingston.

Her first job (apart from working as an assistante or part-time language teacher in Paris, and secretarial temping jobs, one of them with a publisher) was to work for Amnesty International in London. Her duties as a bilingual graduate secretary included researching the state of human rights in francophone African countries. She read testimony of torture victims and handwritten eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes. Every day of her working week she saw and heard things that literally gave her nightmares, and made her profoundly grateful that she lived in a country blessed with the rule of law. Her job with Amnesty was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of [her] life. Her next temporary employer was the ManchesterChamber of Commerce . She was, however, already less interested in her day job than in her own writing.

In the absence of her mother and sister, CR became her father's attendant, nurse, and companion during the daytime.

The first year of her course gave her a position as Library Scholar in the Department of Printed Books at the then British Museum . She worked on the enquiry desk, then at cataloguing. She already knew that she intended to be a writer.

Three months after her husband 's death, PR founded the Arya Mahila Samaj in Poona; this society of high-caste Hindu women worked for the education of girls and against child-marriage.

She had at first had an easy life for a slave, being nominally the property of a child of her own age whom, while she was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave, she says she dearly loved; [s]he used to lead me about by the hand, and call me her little nigger. When she was eleven she began to be hired out to another family, but still her work was the easy task of looking after a baby, and she was only once ever punished with a blow. Then her mistress, Mrs Williams, died, and her true owner, Captain Williams, needed money in order to re-marry, and raised it by selling slaves.

BRP joined the Committee for the Ladies' Address to their American Sisters on Slavery, a group that, motivated by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin, collected over 500,000 signatures for their anti-slavery petition.

A respite from the boredom of this social life came when she began working, temporarily, for her father on a programme aimed at improving the jute seed used by local peasants. She got to know the young male Indian agricultural students she worked with, rode out alone inspecting fields, and generally found employment a liberation.