DR 's first published piece, an unsigned essay entitled The Russian and His Book, appeared in Outlook.

BH early conceived the idea that she needed books, both reading and writing them, to survive. She first reached print as a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl with a story about a page long, The Stepping Stones of Truth, in a children's magazine: it tells how a boy named Peter overcame his habits of lying and stealing with the help of his guardian angel.

At the age of thirteen, VH was published for the first time: some of her poetry appeared in Century magazine.

At the age of eighteen, MJJ published her first work, the poem Curiosity and Scandal, in the Coventry Herald.

PL was only eleven when he first reached print, with a contribution to his school magazine, The Coventrian, which Anthony Thwaite has called an extraordinarily assured, facetious performance in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Larkin.

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many of its shorter pieces had appeared already in periodicals. In The Dream, a mother disillusioned by her own bitter experience of marriage offers counsel to a daughter whose wedding is set for the morrow and whose head is full of dreams of happiness. In The Creole Girl, an illegitimate young colonial woman who may or may not be of mixed race suffers from the scorn and hypocrisy of moral England, striking down the weak / And smiling at the vices of the strong. In this story narrated by a physician (mentioned in a subtitle later added) who is the only person who has empathy for the girl, her hopeless love for an Englishman too conventional to defy Custom causes her to waste away and die. In A Destiny the wife of a cheat and gambler eventually dies of despair. Biographer Alan Chedzoy diagnoses self-projection in each of these poems. The volume also includes veiled portraits of actual people, including Samuel Rogers and George Norton .

Mona Caird 's signed article Marriage appeared in the Westminster Review, instigating the most famous newspaper controversy of the nineteenth century, as a recent critic calls it.

By the time she reached twenty, MEC was regularly contributing essays to periodicals like The Monthly Packet and Merry England. One of her first publications was an essay on Shakespeare for The Theatre.

ED 's poem Morning on Rostrevor Mountains was published in The Dublin Penny Journal with the signature E.

RF began writing poetry as a child and never stopped. She first reached print at ten or eleven, in a magazine published by the British War Relief Society , an American organization for which her mother worked. She read some of these poems herself on a children's radio programme. Having no copy of the magazine, she now says she has no idea what the poems were like.

RW began her career as a journalist at the age of eighteen (following her earliest publication, a letter to The Scotsman challenging views it had expressed on politics and gender politics). Her early articles and reviews are bold and provocative, often overtly feminist. Jane Marcus , who has collected many of these early writings in The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 (1982), praises RW 's work from this time as clear, highly polished, often uproariously funny . . . journalism of the highest order.

CS became a journalist as well as a dramatist. She contributed toThe Girl's Realm, edited by Violet Alcock , and wrote a series of articles for the St James's Gazette under the pseudonym the Princess, about the issues facing the New Woman. In 1903 her lively journalistic dialogues written for this paper were collected as The Boudoir Critic, which she calls a novel. This found few readers. CS said that its publishers, Harper's , claimed not to be surprised: they had chosen it to reward merit, not to make a profit.

EJS first appeared in print, in the pages of The Academy under the name H. Lawrenny, with a review of Edmond About 's Le Fellah: souvenirs de l'Egypte.

The Pall Mall Gazette published FS 's interview from Gibraltar with Zebehr Pasha , an exiled leader and slave trader from Sudan: this scoop revived his reputation and assured hers.

The London Magazine printed SP 's article Women Workers of England, illustrated with her own unique paintings.

AMH published an Irish sketch, Master Ben, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, a periodical edited by her husband Samuel Carter Hall .

At thirteen AL published The Ballad of Ida Grey in the feminist journal The Pelican; an essay by her on Elizabeth Barrett 's Aurora Leigh had already appeared in the children's magazine Kind Words.

MBL decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother (who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the house at 11 Great College Street, Westminster, to see if Marie could establish herself as a writer in London. By this date she had already invested years in research for her book on Charlotte Elizabeth, Princess Palatine . Her mother, who had known everybody, took her to visit Margaret Oliphant (who thought her expressions of admiration impertinent) and Eliza Lynn Linton (who was very kind); but both these two, and Elizabeth Charles , all advised her against choosing an author's life.Cardinal Manning (a family friend, who disapproved of her gaiety of nature but sympathised with her aspirations and was shocked on learning how small a profit she had made on her first book) introduced her this year to W. T. Stead; Stead took her on as a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette, and introduced her in turn to Edmund Garrett , who taught her her trade. She was soon writing for the Gazette and other papers, very largely on France and French culture. When in April 1890 Stead launched a monthly survey of literary production, the Review of Reviews, she hoped to be allowed to cover French subjects for it, and was disappointed when foreign material was allocated to Flora Shaw . Shaw, however, soon moved to the Times, and Belloc got the French coverage she desired. Her salary for this work rose gradually from fifty to a hundred pounds a year, and soon her total journalistic earnings amounted to four hundred pounds a year. Every week she passed half her pay to her mother.

ML 's first known published work, Aphorisms on Futurism, appeared in Camera Work under the name Mina Loy.

The first piece of writing that she showed to her parents, a short story called Sucker, won her the gift of a typewriter from her father. It was rejected by more than a dozen leading US magazines, to reach print near the end of her life in September 1963 in the Saturday Evening Post.

Elizabeth Barrett 's first independent publication, Stanzas, Excited by Some Reflections on the Present State of Greece, appeared in The New Monthly Magazine.

In the late 1850s, RHD began her writing career with reviews, editorials and occasional poems and stories for the Wheeling Intelligencer. This newspaper, published in her hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia, had the largest circulation of any paper in the state. In 1859, for a very brief period, she controlled the editorial column.

Poetry magazine, edited by Harriet Monroe in Chicago, published TSE 's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

ME 's first short story to see print, The Little Red Umbrella, appeared in the New Statesman and Nation after being accepted by David Garnett .