After a stint as a governess, AB decided she could afford the rental of a house in Colby Road, Upper Norwood, for herself, Mabel , and a maid.

Throughout her life, EB 's employment at anything other than writing was never more than sporadic. On graduation in 1934 she taught briefly at the USA School of Writing (an exploitative institution about which she later wrote a satirical essay, and where she used the pseudonym of Mr. Margolies). In 1943 she took a job grinding optical lenses, but this lasted only five days before illness made her resign. In September 1949 she was appointed for a year as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC—a job and a place which made her unhappy. Her period there coincided with a drive to purge federal offices of homosexuals, who were considered a security threat. Suspected gay men and (fewer) lesbians were being fired at twice the rate of Communists and fellow-travellers. Bishop was carefully closeted and lonely.

CB assumed a teaching position at a boarding school to aid her family's financial situation.

EB began her first job, teaching six- to eight-year-old boys at Bickley Park School ; she stayed there just one calendar year, and left with an excellent reference.

After graduating from the convent, she worked at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin as a housekeeper.

Lucy Wood (later LB ) left Oxford University to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital , London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital , Cambridge, and then a military hospital near Le Havre in France.

Eager to participate in the war effort despite her poor health, PB worked as a relief worker with three thousand Belgian refugees at Hammersmith Town Hall.

After she finished her education in France, CMB returned to England and found work as a governess. At first, she worked at schools in Dover and Brighton. Later she worked in a private home for a family in Leicestershire. It was at this time that she began contributing short stories to The Lamp, a Catholic penny magazine. A parcel of books was her only payment for this early literary work.

As well, ABundertook the exclusive management at home, especially after her husband became increasingly busy in his political duties.

Anna Eliza Kempe (later AEB ) was advertised as making her acting debut in the role of Belvidera (in Thomas Otway 's Venice Preserv'd) at the BathTheatre .

After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take part in a sewing bee. The New English Art Club , which worshipped French Impressionism and took an anti-academic approach to the canon of art, was a fitting place to show this picture. Brett's next ambitious work, Umbrellas, presents a fair bit more colour and far more recognizable characters similarly assembled under the eponymous umbrellas. The central figure of Lady Ottoline Morrell sits flanked by Julian Morrell , Aldous Huxley , Lytton Strachey , and DB herself, whilst Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry huddle together in the background. The celebrity factor notwithstanding, Umbrellas failed to qualify for that year's NEAC exhibition, but was accepted into the London Group 's spring exhibition of 1918. The London Group rejected Brett's portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell a few years later, but in 1921-2 she exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery . The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter , praised Umbrellas as radiant and joyous in its application of colour, with a touch of futurism bolstering its stylistic relevance.

VB left Somerville College at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD .

AB left home for a short period as a governess at Blake Hall, near Mirfield.

During the Second World War CBR joined the WAAF and was posted to the intelligence operation at Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, as an Information Officer to decoding intercepted enemy messages.

Before becoming an author herself, FB worked as amanuensis or copyist to her father , regularly transcribing his work to go to the printer.

In 1842 he joined the Indian army, with which he served in England and later in India. In 1855 he served in the Crimean War.

EB was known for her particular skill with children: making friends with them, interesting them in reading their Bibles, and influencing them for good.

While her children were little CB practised self-sufficiency farming at a farm called Avonbank, near Strathaven, in the west of Scotland.

MC 's plans for missionary work in China were shelved after the Boxer Rebellion began there, and many foreign missionaries were murdered.

Her first months after leaving school were spent as a teaching assistant in Bideford, where Barbara Seton , a cousin of Mary and Agnes Berry, had opened a school.

AC began her career as a writer while living at Ely. Between 1865 and 1869 she published three religious novellas, two collections of hymns, and probably her first book of poetry.

DPC had become a teacher.

In 1814, TC left the University of Edinburgh and started teaching, taking up a position at Annan Academy . He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 to pursue his literary aspirations. While there, he also worked as a tutor and reviewer. In 1824 and 1827 he published translations of Goethe . He also published in several periodicals.