Following unsuccessful literary endeavours, MH agreed to try her hand at acting.

Bessie Emery (later BH ), with her teacher's certificate not yet under her belt, found work as a teacher at Clairwood Coloured School in Durban.

AJ got her first professional acting job because she could speak French: when she graduated from drama school, she joined a French company's production of Federico Garcia Lorca 's La Maison de Bernard Alba. Apart from this, she found that interesting theatre jobs were hard to come by in the years following the Second World War, so she decided to form her own theatre company.

FK , not yet twenty, made a triumphant Covent Garden Theatre debut as Shakespeare 's Juliet, saving her father 's company from bankruptcy.

Along with her fellow classmates at Cheltenham , MK prepared and sent boxes of supplies to British soldiers on the front lines.

HK worked as a Sunday school teacher before her marriage. As a widow she both taught and set up schools of her own, at Nottingham and Sheffield. Later she set up two schools in Sierra Leone, and visited schools in Liberia. She opened her school in Sheffield in about 1806, and ran it for about fifteen years. Its prospectus is reproduced by her biographer. One of her pupils there was Mary Botham (later Howitt) , who became an important Victorian writer. Education is an important topic in HK 's letters, and she speaks of it from experience.

CM 's first work, begun while she was at the LSE, was for her aunt's feminist journal Time and Tide. She had a summer job in 1931 working for a wealthy Hungarian family near Pecs, with undefined duties comparable to those of a daughter at home. Two years later she was teaching English to a young boy in Berlin (and, because he was Jewish, learning rapidly and unpleasantly about the anti-semitic feelings around her). Soon after that she was similarly employed in Paris. She went on to become a journalist and foreign correspondent for several (mostly French) newspapers, and to remain active in the field of scholarship, keeping up especially her interest in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé .

For a number of years, she supported herself as a painter of portraits in miniature.

Having left school during the second world war, Gwen Goddard worked briefly in a newspaper office, then joined the Women's Land Army . This work, however, did not appeal to her. After eighteen months she lied about her age and in 1943 joined the women's army, the Auxiliary Territorial Service or ATS, in which she worked as a driver and a physical training instructor.

Increasingly concerned with religious and class issues, Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) began leading Bible studies and organizing carving classes for villagers at Welbeck, her half-brother's estate.

Lady Craven's private theatre was in several successive incarnations the social and artistic centre of her life. She also played the harp, drew and painted, specializing in portraits which she called busts.

She was already working as a freelance journalist by June 1913.

A group known as the Sealed Knot attempted a Royalist plot; just possibly Aphra Johnson (later AB ) now had her first taste of spying by carrying messages to France.

She also worked as a volunteer labourer in the school grounds.

GB 's love of mountaineering was exceeded only by her love of travelling as such. She also became a keen amateur photographer, who was later able to illusrate some of her own books with photographs (many of them of buildings or archaeological sites threatened with destruction). In the year 2006 an exhibition was being held at Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish centre in Turkey, of GB 's photographs of the town taken in 1911. These pictures, concentrated on buildings with little attention to spare for the people who lived there, show a virtually intact medieval city and may yet prove useful to restorers.

Having left school at the age of sixteen, although he was a gifted student, Arnold spent his days at unpaid work, including rent collection, in his father 's office at Piccadilly in Hanley. After this came a job as a lawyer's clerk in London, during which he continued the sideline of journalism which he had already begun.

SB enrolled with the Women's Emergency Corps as a clerk, typist, or French interpreter.

According to several sources, JB was a lover of the country and a bold rider to hounds.

Under the stage name of Mary Seyton, MEB pursued a career as a stage actress, first in the provinces and then in London.

Breeze was involved in Jamaica's poetry scene from a young age, performing the words of Louise Bennett on stages all over Jamaica in the annual festival. While married, she was a teacher at a secondary school in Hanover, as well as working with the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission , where she helped to plan annual Jamaican arts festivals.

With funds and additional production assistance, Bryher contributed to Weaver 's Egoist Press 's Poets' Translation Series. She also subsidized the publication of Hymen by H. D. , which, like Moore's collection, was released by the Press in 1921.