His few writing years produced, as well as the poems and letters for which he is famous, the groundwork for a career in letters in the form of magazine contributions. He is represented in The Annual, Being a Selection from the Forget-Me-Nots, Keep-Sakes and other Annuals of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Dorothy Wellesley in 1930.

As well as her pursuits of music and writing (she continued to produce religious and discursive texts after giving up fiction), MAK did needlework for charity.

In 1911 MK was engaged in literary and secretarial work.

FK took an active position as the wife of a Rector at Eversley. When the couple arrived, the seventeenth-century rectory was in disrepair, and flooded in heavy rain. Brenda Colloms notes that, nevertheless, there was a warm, hospitable air about the rectory, due in large measure to Fanny's excellent household management. In 1851 the couple employed six servants, including a cook, a nurse, a parlour maid, and a stable boy. Norman Vance writes that FKplayed little part in Kingsley's public life in London and elsewhere, and that she was usually a cheerful and supportive wife and mother, energetically involved with parish work and amanuensis for many of her husband's books. In 1848, at her insistence, new drains were dug for the rectory, which somewhat improved the flooding problems.FK comforted her mother-in-law when Charles Kingsley's father died in 1860, and in 1864 organized her removal from Chelsea to Eversley, where she lived with the family for the rest of her life. Charles Kingsley's pupil James Martineau wrote of FK that [t]he lady of the house was one in a hundred and that [t]he Mother is the light and the moving spirit of the home. Unpublished letters cited by Chitty , however, tell a slightly more nuanced story. She notes that FK , for all her good qualities, was bossy, bustling, and anxious about appearances. Contrary to the way FK would later portray their relationship in her biography of her husband, she and Charles, though they cared for one another deeply, sometimes bickered, disagreed, and exasperated each other.

At her father's death it became necessary for FAK and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an industrialist where she was not ultimately a success.FAK not only modelled the governess-heroine of Anne Sherwood, 1857, on an idealised version of herself, but specifically says in that novel that she has experienced the privations typical of the governess's life. One family of children she looked after were grandchildren of the poet Shelley by Harriet (the young wife who preceded Mary Godwin Shelley , and later killed herself) but FAK fell out with the mother of this family.

In her second rue de Richelieu, residence, ATL established a Tuesday salon which became, especially after 1710, a leader in French society and culture. She sought to emulate the salons of the marquise de Rambouillet in an earlier generation, but hers looked forward to the new ideas of the Enlightenment (represented by Locke , Malebranche , and Montesquieu ) as well as towards established aristocratic and précieux ideals of honour and wit. At these events lunch was followed by readings from work in progress (de Lambert sometimes read to her guests from her own writings) or the proposal of topics for debate. Later, less formal Wednesday salons were added to the Tuesday ones.

At nearly fifty ML described herself as a Country Bookseller (that is a publisher) but this may be fiction.

She has described becoming a teacher herself as doing what school told me. She was employed at a comprehensive school and her subject was drama. She later worked as a publicity assistant in industry. During the 1970s, the impetus of the women's movement took her into the world of the theatre, where she has worked in many capacities: as director, performer, playwright, and teacher of playwriting. She has directed most of her own plays until recently, and a few by other people.

EL 's favourite occupation at Hazelhatch was gardening. The plants which she tended (while Lady Sarah admired the results) were described by her friend and biographer Edith Sichel as her children, possessing individual characters and receiving maternal attention.

During World War Two, ML engaged in unspecified war duties.

ML worked as a kitchen-maid for Susanna Jennens of Weston Hall, Northamptonshire (daughter of Sir John Blencowe , who had employed her father). Jennens herself wrote verse (like her mother). She encouraged ML 's writing, and appears in her poems as Parthenissa.

Their father being seriously ill, money needed, and SL 's first literary earnings to hand, she and her sisters opened Mesdames Lees, Ladies' Boarding School , in Bath.

When first married UKLG held an academic job teaching French at Macon University .

While living in London she often studied at the British Museum .

WL was an avant-garde painter and writer. His paintings were shown in the second Post-Impressionist exhibit, held in London in 1912, and for a time he worked with Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops . (They quarrelled and Lewis left on bad terms, however.) With Ezra Pound and others, Lewis launched the Vorticist movement, an English variant on Italian Futurism that thrived between 1912 and 1915.

At about this date IL and her sisters were keeping a school.

Having graduated from St Anne's , Penelope Low (later PL ) worked at her first job: as a research assistant to a Fellow of St Antony's College , Oxford.

AL had work to do in London. Elizabeth was too compromising a Protestant to satisfy the returned exiles from Geneva, and she was an enemy of Knox. AL functioned as Knox 's link to the London book trade, and she also raised funds there to sustain the faltering cause of the Scottish lords of the congregation.

The latter conferred on him a Studentship which could have been a job for life if he had cared to take Holy Orders. He spent some years at the college pursuing his own research and tutoring students; he was also engaged in the education of the future third Earl of Shaftesbury , who himself later had some influence as a philosopher. JL also held a series of government positions, the last one, in the reign of William III, being at the Board of Trade .

It was during her second marriage that RL became a published writer.