She began work by December 1932 as a publisher's reader for Hamish Hamilton . She was paid a pound a book, and called these earnings the price of shame.

WT , in her teens, was professed as a nun, with the English Augustinian Canonesses at St Monica's at Louvain in Belgium.

Ann Ford quickly began using the talents God had given me in private performances as a singer: at home, and in other fashionable houses in London and Bath. Her published letter to Lord Jersey includes a remarkable defence of singing in public for a young woman, as not only potentially virtuous and innocent, but a professional activity, to be looked upon in as favourable a light, as a surgeon or midwife. After she broke off her relations with Jersey, her father grudgingly supported, she said, her aim of earning her living by music, but both Jersey and his wife Lady Jersey refused her their patronage.

While she was a student of physical education during the First World War, Elizabeth MacKintosh worked during vacations as a VAD at a convalescent home in Inverness (probably at Leys Castle Auxiliary Hospital), as well as teaching keep-fit classes at Cadbury 's factory.

In her late years TT was known for her needlework, but not for writing.

ET , aged seventeen, became a debutante and was presented at court before this unique rite of passage for the upper classes was abolished.

From 1942 to 1945, ET worked as a medical coder for the US War Office in Cheltenham and London. She was attached to the Office of the Surgeon General. She says she adored army life . . . for the structure and the ceremony. After the war, in 1946, she served in Germany with the British Army , rising to the rank of captain, acting as a conference and law court interpreter.

She involved herself diligently in her children's education, and made a practice of reading aloud to her family at breakfast and at tea-time—a practice which refreshed her own mind and re-awakened her dormant taste, which therefore she continued long after the children were grown up.

It seems to have been from about the same date that she took on the duties of secretary as well as housekeeper and hostess to her adoptive father the archbishop .

Local tradition says that HS , at some time after September 1801, arranged the rebuilding of her home village of Settrington (which now, through her, belonged to her husband).

In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple (husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first Church of Ireland parish in 1700 and began a pattern of regular visits to England. His period of greatest political influence and career prospects lasted from September 1710 until the death of Queen Anne appeared imminent. His highest promotion in the Church, to the position of Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, came to him during this time, in April 1713. His writings in prose satire, intimate letters, and poetry, as well as political analysis, date from before, during, and after this time.

The occasion was a plan by some leaders of the women's suffrage movement to use AS 's great scholarly reputation as a public-relations tool to demonstrate the abilities of women. She was expected to second a motion, but not to speak. As recalled by Frances Power Cobbe , who was present, Swanwick got up and began to speak too softly, then pitched her tone to a sweet, strong voice which carried to the back of the hall. She was an immense success with her audience, and the occasion launched her career as a public speaker.

She began to work as a miniature painter, following advice from her parents and the headmaster of Bideford Art School (who allowed her to use an empty room there as her studio) that she would be unable to handle large-sized canvasses. Earning a living from miniatures would be feasible, though for RS , often working from photographs and often, as the second world war progressed, from likenesses of dead soldiers, it represented a shrinking of ambition, even when she had her first work (a romantic imaginary portrait, Spirit of England) selected for exhibition by the Royal Academy . During the first year of the war she and her mother coped with the local Home Guard using their house as a Signals Post. After the Royal Academy came acceptance as a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters , but RS felt cramped by the limited scope of the miniature form It was because [o]ne can write as big as one needs without physical restrictions that she developed the desire to become a writer. At first she hid her work, not mentioning it to her parents, who quite reasonably in view of her school record would have thought this a futile idea.

It is very likely that AS herself held a position at court.

MS was well-known as a journalist, artist, photographer, and art historian. She taught fine art and art history at several English universities, specialising in Women's Art practice 1840-1990. The curator of many exhibitions, Sulter arranged to exhibit her own work and that of other artists at various galleries, including The People's Gallery in London, the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, and in Glasgow both the Street Level Gallery and the Centre for Contemporary Art .

ES duly began writing for children and editing a periodical, but this was a temporary measure. They formed the intention of publishing historical memoirs or biographies. (Both biography collections and the memoir as a new, informal kind of social history were genres associated with women. Mary Hays had produced in Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated, 1821, an example of the former genre which closely foreshadows the Stricklands' project, while the latter genre had been pioneered by Lucy Aikin in her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, 1818.) Elizabeth did research in major national collections in both Britain and France, securing admittance by intensive networking to archives which were not then easy to access.

She laid out landscape gardens at Gibside, personally arranged the import of new plants from Africa, and had garden buildings such as an orangery constructed. The estate now belongs to the National Trust .

During the Second World War, LS worked as a journalist for the Daily Herald. She reported on the visit to England of American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in October 1942, a trip that aimed to raise the morale of American servicemen stationed in Britain.

MS taught at the Victoria University of Manchester (now Manchester University).

Soon after her marriage, SS was practising as a midwife in Bridgwater, though some people thought her too young.

Presumably driven by the need to earn money for herself and her mother, MS followed her father and brother into the family trade by opening a bookshop and publishing business in Piccadilly.

Late in the war first world war GBS had a light volunteer job, taking blind men walking in Regent's Park. It was a trial to her, however, because of her propensity to get lost and her feeling that she must conceal this from her charges.

Richard Steele was appointed governor of Drury Lane Theatre . He was suspended from this position in 1720 and restored to it the following year.

AS undertook her full share of caring for members of the extended family as they happened to be in need. She looked after her father after the death of her stepmother, and took over the mothering of her niece Polly when Polly's mother died. Her niece wrote later that AS had been her teacher in everything that she had learned, and had the art of communicating the wish for knowledge.