AS 's mother died; from this time Anna ran the household at the Bishop's Palace for her father , who had independent means, increasingly poor health, and before long senility.

OS worked as a journalist, first with the Daily Gleaner in Jamaica and later with the Jamaica Information Service . After many years as a freelance writer in public relations, speech writing and publishing, she became editor of Social and Economic Studies, a journal published by the University of the West Indies (Mona) .

During her later years, CMS did volunteer work with the Women's Prison Association and in June 1845 established the Home for Discharged Female Convicts in the state of New York. She also worked as a teacher both at a girls' school and at several Sunday schools.

MS , a former habituée of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, initiated her own salon; she became known as one of the leading salonnières in the heyday of the institution.

He achieved celebrity as a poet before publishing his first novel in 1814.

SS and Lady Barbara seem to have made and sold decorative work, including painting and needlepoint (especially crewel), whenever possible to finance their charitable activities.

CS became a painter and musician of some accomplishment. According to Lady Louisa Stuart she called her drawings dark-coloured, [her] music touching, and [her] style pathetic. Three years before she was married she produced a self-portrait in which she stands on some castle battlements in period costume, in the role of Constance in Sir Walter Scott 's Marmion.

After her father died she lived with her mother and her mother's two unmarried sisters. During this time she focused on her art: sketching landscapes and flowers, painting her own portrait, and embroidering. Throughout AMS 's life art continued to be an important pursuit.

In addition to her anti-slavery activity, MAS pursued serious scientific interests. She sat on the committee of a Bristol scientific society for which she arranged a visiting lecturer on the physiology of plants, and had contacts at a parallel society. In November 1836 she had a box of phormium tenax, or New Zealand flax, packed up ready for sending to the scientist John Murray (1785/6 - 1851) , who had that year published Phormium tenax, or, New-Zealand Flax, printed on paper made from its leaves: with a postscript on paper.

DLS taught French at the High School in Hull for £120 a year. She disliked teaching.

MS said that without being in Trade she might properly be called a Woman of Business. She said furthermore that she was not five minutes alone from morn to night. Her work must have parallelled that of a matron in a boys' boarding school.

She seems to have occupied the centre of a loosely-knit group of young women from within and beyond Lesbos, most of whom had reached puberty but not yet married. This is sometimes referred to as a school with Sappho as its teacher, or as a religious organisation. This socially accepted but somewhat separate subcultural group involved its members in dance and song, participation in cultic ritual, and instruction in matters of dress and carriage. The heroic mythology woven in some of Sappho's songs around the institutions of virginity and marriage suggests that her students were being groomed for their weddings.

Eight years after her marriage, MS established herself as a writer with the publication of her first collection of poems. Her literary career spanned little more than a decade, but during that time she published six works, including poetry, verse drama, and fiction.

Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) was employed as a columnist for the Figaro, a Parisian satirical political publication; she was the only woman employed there at the time.

As a widow, LRR divided her time between Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (which belonged to her late husband's family); Stratton in Hampshire; Totteridge in Hertfordshire; and Southampton House (later Bedford House), Bloomsbury Square, London—the three last-named properties had come to her from her father. She managed these large estates, followed politics closely, and played a major role in her children's education. She saw them all married.

In GlasgowJR became a dressmaker; she also worked as a servant.

CR began her career as a freelance reviewer and journalist before she left school, and never entirely relinquished these activities.

In time MR assumed the roles of unpaid housekeeper and gardener at Ross House.

CCR worked as a schoolmistress and sewing teacher. Friends found pupils for her, who seem briefly to have rivalled the dominance of God in her life; she was able, she says, to do great good to one of them in particular.

During these years when MR 's father was becoming more at odds with the king and more bent on living in private like a saint, she dispensed charity on his behalf (in somewhat the manner of a modern foundation), and managed the private almshouse he had opened in Chelsea. He wore a hair shirt beneath the fine clothes appropriate to his rank and function, and the personal duty of washing it fell to her. She also taught her children herself (she had wanted to get Roger Ascham to tutor them). Even with her father in prison she kept herself busy with their education.

He involved himself seriously in the theatre, and was a patron and critic of that institution as well as a powerful poet both satirical and lyrical.

FMR hoped to become a painter, and devoted most of [her] girlhood to painting before the full development of her interest in social and political issues. Vernon Lee in Miss Brown, 1884, somewhat belittlingly described a character whom she based on Mabel as interested in school boards, and depauperisation. In fact FMR had a professional career as secretary of Bedford College (founded in 1849), whose students, receiving degrees from London University in 1878, were the first women to be awarded academic degrees in Britain.