GM 's prolific career as a poet and novelist spanned four decades and established him as a important British literary figure. He published his first collection of poetry, Poems (1851), at his own expense. It received little critical attention. A work of fiction, The Shaving of Shagpat, followed in 1855 with a date of 1856. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, another novel, appeared in 1859. His semi-autobiographical poem sequence Modern Love was published in 1862. Several further works of fiction followed: Emilia in England, 1864 (later and better known as Sandra Belloni), Rhoda Fleming, 1865, and Beauchamp's Career, 1876, which tackles the Second Reform Bill. He serialized many novels before publishing them in volume form, including his celebrated The Egoist (1879). Later poetry collections included Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883). GM 's 1885 novel Diana of the Crossways (based on Caroline Norton 's life ) was very popular and its independent-minded protagonist much admired by female readers. With his career firmly established, he continued to produce both poetry and fiction during his final decades. Several collected editions of his works appeared before his death.

EM was introduced to writing as a career through her eldest brother, a tithe commissioner whom she assisted with his reports.

During and after the First World War, CM worked for the War Pensions Committee , visiting pensioners and war widows to help them collect their allowances.

AM went on a lecture-tour of the United States at the invitation of Agnes Tobin .

JM never acted in a theatre, though she recited at the Royal Pavilion, to a full audience at the Dome, and at many private parties. The parts she played included: Esther in Thomas William Robertson 's Caste, Lady Aubrey Glenmorris in John Palgrave Simpson 's A School for Coquettes, Beatrice in Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing, and Pauline in Edward Bulwer Lytton 's The Lady of Lyons.

Back at Batheaston, ALM set up a literary salon, instituting fortnightly gatherings where poetry contests were held, based on those of Renaissance Italy.

BM employed a maid, cook, and nanny for help in the house. One of the nannies later recalled that she was not a very good housekeeper. Her difficulty in dealing with people extended to being frightened of her own servants.

The fact that she served as executrix for the estates of two of her sisters, Hannah and Susannah, suggests that she was competent in business matters.

As an adult she worked to provide relief for impoverished Jews in England and expended significant time, energy, and money developing charitable organizations. She also worked to promote education for the poor by participating in the activities of the Jew's Infant School , the Jewish Free School , and the West Metropolitan School , all in London. She was a founding member of the Jewish Emigration Society , and also involved herself with the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan and Visiting Society . Her obituary laid great emphasis on her charity work.

SM became a medium, motivated partly by a desire to connect with her dead children, and began to receive mystical and political messages from an Anglo-Saxon Spirit supposedly born in London in 1025.

After an office job working on a revision of the Dewey Decimal Index, MM spent three years teaching at a US Industrial Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Another paid job was as editor of The Dial, 1924-9, after which she set out to live by her own writing.

MM was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It was thought to be a portrait of Sir Thomas More , but in fact it is a copy from Holbein of a portrait of Thomas Cromwell . The intermediary for donating it to the Bodleian was Robert Whitehall . He marked the occasion with a poem about illustrations to the Bible, which was printed as well as circulating in manuscript and which hovers, says Margaret J. M. Ezell , on the verge of insult: one of two occasions on which MM crossed swords with Whitehall.Germaine Greer reproduces this portrait in her book The Obstacle Race.

Life continued after the scandal. In 1791 SWM and her husband together backed the scheme for establishing Boston's first venue for dramatic performance. When the Federal Street Theatre opened in the 1790s (seating 1,200 people, built at a cost of $6,000), she owned a one-sixtieth share in it.

Besides domestic work (such as housekeeping for her brother Thomas), AM was a pioneer in designing and embroidering church vestments from medieval patterns found in the work of Augustus Pugin , long before this became one of the recognised feminine occupations of her class. She was assiduous, too, in others of those occupations: Sunday School teaching and visiting the poor.John Wordsworth wrote in his posthumous memoir of her, with a mind continually at work, Anne Mozley's outward life was exclusively a family and social one.

HM was busy as a country clergyman's wife. Besides writing and visiting the poor, she coached the church choir and taught in the village school. She educated her daughter Grace herself, took charge too of the education of children who came to stay with her, and had Grace teaching at the school at the age of six. When an epidemic of fever broke out in the village, she organised the moving of sufferers into quarantine, and disinfecting and repainting infected rooms.

HM 's activities as a member of the London School Board , as member and office-holder of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and other organizations, and as a campaigner for better treatment for prostitutes, did not absorb all her energy.

In summer 1973 she taught creative writing at Notre Dame University in Nelson, BC (two hours a day for a small salary plus $70 travel allowance and a three-room apartment). In the following academic year she taught once a week at York University , Toronto. She was later artist-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1974-75 (just as Canadian literature was becoming established as a subject of study), and at the University of British Columbia in 1980. She is a sought-after public speaker and reader, who did not keep to her intention of retiring from these activities in 1998. One of her topics was her earlier occupation of selling books.

Nothing more is known of GM 's life beyond her flourishing as a novelist and periodical contributor between the years 1842 and 1853, and her emigration to South Africa.

In IndiaDM worked as a volunteer from July to November 1963 in a Tibetan refugee camp in the Himalayan foothills—rather as she had previously worked in a seedy pub in the East End of London and at Ober Saulheim on the Rhinehoeing vines, scouring churns, harvesting straw, mucking out cow byres, grading eggs and corking wine. She followed her Himalayan camp work with a brief tour inspecting conditions in other camps. This work was done for an institution connected with the Save the Children fund, and back in England she was taken up by the parent organization for publicity purposes: a press conference, radio and television interviews, all designed, she felt, to present a spurious heroine image . . . to a gullible public.

As a young woman EGM involved herself in various causes. She joined the local branch of the League of Pity and worked for the welfare of the poor.

As well as writing biographies of her parents, GM continued her mother's record of expenditure in her Day Book after her mother's death.

Sarah Maese (as her birth name is spelled in the first volume of her work The School) opened a boarding-school for girls in Beauford Square, Bath.