As Speranza, Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW ) published her first work in the Nation: a translation of the German poem The Holy War.

ER 's first publication was a story that appeared in the new Fraser's Magazine some time after its start in February 1830. My Aunt in a Salt Mine was inspired by a visit to a Salzburg salt mine during her brief residence in Germany.

At high school ESVM not only edited the school magazine but also began to publish her poems in St Nicholas Magazine, a publication for children.

FPC 's first published essay, about an Italian workhouse, appeared over the initial C in Louisa Twining 's Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.

MF apparently began her literary career publishing poetry in local Australian newspapers. Her critic and biographer Lucy Sussex characterizes some of this poetry as politically radical.

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) published a review of W. D. Howells 's The Son of Royal Langbrith on the women's page of the Guardian (not the then Manchester Guardian but a weekly paper for clergymen).

The first short story by Frances Elizabeth McCall (later SG ) to make it to print was Mamma's Music Lessons, which appeared in Margaret Gatty 's evangelical Aunt Judy's Magazine for Young People.

KT later believed that as a keen reader in her youth, if I had lived among writing-people I too should have written in those years. It did not occur to me to write, although I read much poetry. She was around nineteen when she wrote her first poem, A Dream; it was published in September 1878 in a Dublin penny paper. By 1880 a number of her poems had appeared in the Graphic, and others began to be accepted by The Spectator and the short-lived Dublin literature review Hibernia. She credited Father Matthew Russell , founder and editor of the Irish Monthly, with initiating her writing career. He printed her poems and sketches in his journal and helped her get published elsewhere.

EG composed her earliest identified publication, a poem printed the following month in the London Magazine and reprinted next year in her own collection: The Delirium. By a Young Lady.

Its title in the USA was Times of the Saviour. It was written after The Hope of the Hebrew, the first of HM 's historical tales, set during the time of Christ, met with great success in the The Monthly Repository. She wrote the rest of the volume in two weeks.

LSB probably first reached print with two sonnets in the Quaker periodical the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, titled Sonnet and A Double Sonnet. She may have added a third sonnet in the same journal this year.

FN also anonymously published an illustrated pamphlet (Mortality of the British Army, at Home and Abroad, and During the Russian War, as Compared with the Morality of the Civil Population of England) which aimed to introduce the public to the commission's findings. A pioneering statistician, she printed much of the statistical data in the form of coloured circles or wedges (pie-charts) for easier and more immediate comprehension. She also published in several periodicals, including a contribution to The Builder, 28 August 1858, entitled Sites and Construction of Hospitals. Two more articles appeared in September: Construction of Hospitals: The Ground Plan and Hospital Construction: Wards. All three articles were later reprinted as appendices to Notes on Hospitals.

GE , then Mary Ann Evans, became a published author when a religious poem she had written the previous summer appeared in the Christian Observer signed M.A.E.

The late-teenage MS (still known as Mary) published her first essay in the fifth number of the Cheltenham Ladies College Magazine: it was on Descartes .

VSW began a diary, in code, with the words, I am to restore the fortunes of the family—she had received a pound, her very first earnings, for a poem for the Onlooker.

MR , as Laura Maria, published her first poems in The World, or Fashionable Advertiser.

Biographer Betty Keller believes that the poem was first penned in 1879 and addressed to PJ 's close friend Jean Morton , from the Brantford Collegiate Institute , PJ 's high school. Biographers Gerson and Strong-Boag find evidence of its publication history in the History of the County of Brant but have been unable actually to locate the poem in Gems of Poetry, a periodical not associated with the high school. The first poem they are able to find in that journal appeared in August 1884, entitled The Rift. PJ signed it with the pseudonym Margaret Rox . She continued in the following years to publish poems in Gems of Poetry, The Week (the most prestigious literary and intellectual journal in Canada at the time), and Saturday Night.

SACD , still a student, first reached print with a story, The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

According to MG , her first newspaper feature, Meet Johnny, about a child named Johnny whom she saw living on the streets the summer she was hired on the Montreal Standard, appeared in print.

AJV was in her teens when she reached print as a contributor to The Freemasons' Magazine (which was published from 1793 to 1798, first launched under the title The Free-mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library).

The Ladies Companion printed most of a winning competition entry by FT (who was not yet an author), an essay required to capture in 300 words her understanding of Jane Austen 's success.

As a late-teenage girl at home who had longed vainly for university, ES managed to get some short stories accepted by unimportant magazines. This taste of success led to more ambitious attempts, and so to a growing pile of rejected MSS. on my shelf, labelled Mount of Humiliations.

Seventeen-year-old CR made her public debut with a poem entitled Death's Chill Between in the Athenæum; a second, Heart's Chill Between, appeared a week later. Both bore the initials C. G. R..

In time she became a mainstay of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine or Maga, as author of Our Library Table, a monthly review column. She also contributed stories and articles on travel, history, and literature. She described herself (not without irony) as the magazine's general utility woman—a phrase that emphasised her usefulness and her gender, but made her literary work equivalent to domestic labour of the lowest kind, that is unskilled and unspecialised. She was furiously productive in journalism during the years of her marriage and of successive family bereavements. She published in other magazines as well, such as Fraser's, Macmillan's and the Cornhill.