The novelist Rhoda Broughton was an early supporter of and influence on EA's writing. She helped EA place two early short stories, Mrs Verrinder (1886) and Edged Tools (1887) in Temple Bar through her publisher Richard Bentley .

Before beginning work on The Dressmaker, BB had begun on a novel set in the USA entitled He's the Captan of the Team. This seems to have no connection with The Dressmaker, but Brendan King notes a link between them in source-material drawn from the lives of Bainbridge's two aunts. She composed The Dressmaker at breakneck speed. Before it appeared she wrote, at the invitation of the editor Karl Miller , a piece for the Listener about her background. A film adapted from this novel, by John McGrath , was released in 1988. Joan Plowright and Billie Whitelaw played the roles of BB 's aunts.

In NB 's third year at Oxford , John Wain started a new literary magazine, Mandrake, which published her first short story.

During the same year Eugene Jolas published in the June number of transition Beckett's short story entitled Assumption, and on 14 November the Trinity College, Dublin , student newspaper, A College Miscellany, published his satirical dialogue Che Sciagura (titled from a sentence in Voltaire 's Candide).

At about the age of eight PB decided to channel her general desire to excel into the determination to be a poet: this without any models of such a life being presented to her, and although she saw it as a choice that excluded being married, it meant to her at that time being happy. Hymns, she wrote, were the first kind of poetry I heard, and I heard them in my cradle. At eight she began writing poetry, indeed practically filled the school magazine with it and of course it was all rhyme and traditional scansion. At ten she wrote a poem then printed in the Grammar School magazine, Exmothiensis, entitled Cottages by the Sea; as an adult she dismissed it as relatively simple and sparse lack of perception. She insisted that Evensong, written three years later, showed a deterioration, to lush and romantic lack of perception.

Eight months after she married Samuel Beeton , the first of IB 's regular columns appeared in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.

Frances Parker (later FB ) began publishing articles in The Bristol Times and Mirror.

PB , especially as she grew older, published many short stories set in Yorkshire; most originally appeared in periodicals before being collected in volume form.

July 1876, CB 's first published work, a short story titled The Troubles of an Automaton, appeared in the New Quarterly Magazine.

A series of AEB 's poems appeared posthumously in the New-York Magazine, through the agency of her daughter, Margaretta Faugeres .

Throughout her career Brame continued to contribute short stories and serial novels to various periodicals, including Bow Bells, the New York Weekly, The London Reader, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Family Herald. Her relationship with The Family Herald was especially close, since after contributing several stories and articles to it she became one of its staff writers, a position which she held as long as she lived in London.

She made some editorial changes, for publication, to all her South American writings done while she was actually there, and resolved to omit all quotation from private letters or conversation, though her editor says she occasionally broke this rule. She took great care over the authenticity of her sources, and she made full use of her mastery of both Spanish and Portuguese. The work was excerpted in the Literary Gazette. It is the first book which she illustrated with her own sketches (many now in the British Museum ).Waldemar Valente published a Portuguese translation at Recife in 1974 as Antecipação de Pernambuco no movimento da independência, testemunho de uma inglesa, with detailed study, notes, and illustrations. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.

Jane's love of a good story and her tendency to locate herself as the heroine of her epistles may have caused her to embroider the truth. One of her contemporaries, William MacCall , when responding to her description of him in a letter published posthumously in the Pall Mall Gazette as Almost a Tragedy, charged her with indulging in inaccuracies and exaggerations.

SC is said to have written a song at six years old, which acquired a tune and passed into use as a country dance. As an adult she published poems in various forms: alone, in periodicals, and in miscellanies.

LMC published in volume form her first collection of Letters from New York, which she had contributed as a weekly column to the National Anti-Slavery Standard from August 1841.

KC 's first published short story, A Point at Issue!, was printed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Agatha Miller (later AC ) wrote and published (under various pseudonyms) her first poems while she was about eleven. She was paid a guinea for each poem by Poetry Review. Her earliest verses have not surfaced. Poems written when she was seventeen or eighteen were printed in a volume entitled The Road of Dreams (1924) and reprinted by Collins in her Poems of 1973.

AMC published her first two articles, Brigandage in Sicily and Copernicus in Italy, in the Edinburgh Review.

MSC made the earliest identified (in 2015) of her appearances in the periodical press, anonymously, when her tale Osman was carried by the sixth volume of The Court Miscellany.

Her Times obituary mentioned BWC 's many biographical and critical essays (which presumably appeared in journals).

From the age of about ten JC , a solitary child, was writing poems constantly . . . in secret notebooks with cloth covers. As an undergraduate she published some of them in a magazine whose editor was Lionel Abrahams . The first reading she gave from her poems was in Dublin, where praise from Padraic Colum confirmed her ambition to be a poet. But at this stage, during the later 1960s after migrating to London, although she was building much of her life around poetry, she saw this as an alternative to the other desirable choice in life: to attain domestic happiness would mean losing the ability to write; writing might well lead to suicide. It was a revelation when, towards the end of this decade, she discovered women poets (in consequence of a failed anthology project).

RC first published in Granta and Broadsheet, student periodicals at Cambridge .

BMC found outlets for her shorter fiction in many different periodicals and annuals, and collected it in several volumes of stories.

When MC was about seven, she and her sister Lucy Marguerite were writing stories to read to each other at night. When May was sixteen they discovered and began secretly to contribute to a paper which kindly offered to print beginners' tales on payment of half-a-crown. It was more than a decade after this that she began writing on her own, still in secret.