The publishing career of Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW ) began when the Churchman's Companion, edited by Felicia Skene , accepted her work A Westmoreland Story.

Before the publication of her first novel, DW was already, by grace of my dear friend Winifred Holtby , a contributor of short stories to Time and Tide.

For some time after this ASS contributed all sorts of stuff to the liberal religious and cultural journal the Christian Leader. For this she received no actual money, only an IOU for fifteen pounds. She was very excited when the ostentatiously pious proprietor of a Lancashire evening paper designed for female mill-workers commissioned her for a serial at a rate of one pound a week. This sounded like riches, but worked out to a farthing a line for producing a chapter a day.

She wrote under the pseudonym Lutea Reseda for The Attempt, the journal of the Edinburgh Essay Society a women's literary group

CS wrote an article for the Left Review, The Writers Take Sides, about the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture in Paris, which she had attended as secretary to the British delegation.

The young ES had a poem, Drowned Suns, printed in the Daily Mirror: this success helped to precipitate her decision to leave home and move to London the following month.

The sixth volume of New Writers incorporated PS 's first publication, a short novel entitled An Excusable Vengeance.

The month after Louis XVI was guillotined, AS expressed her outrage at the developing Terror in France with an impassioned letter printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, urging her friend Helen Maria Williams to come home.

Anne Thackeray 's first publication, the articleLittle Scholars, appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine.

CR published her stories in such magazines as London Society, Temple Bar, and Once a Week. It is probable that much of this short fiction is still hidden away and unidentified in the pages of forgotten magazines. She herself retained no records and kept no track of her rights.

ER first contributed to The Common Cause (journal of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies).

In 1848 BRP and her friend Barbara Leigh Smith first began working together to try to publish their writings. Despite an editor's warning not to cast aside the prospect of domestic happiness, Parkes was soon publishing small reviews and articles in the Hastings News. By 1849 she had begun work on a novel: apparently never published, it is said to contain a feminist vision of the perfect marriage.

Very early in her life Amelia Alderson (later AO ) began writing poems, songs, and several plays. An old manuscript book of hers, dated by Cecilia Brightwell 1791, seems to have contained one poem from 1785. In summer 1787 Anna Letitia Barbauld read in manuscript one of her poems, entitled The Virgin's First Love, which later appeared in The Cabinet and was collected in 1802.

Charlotte Perkins Stetson (later CPG ) first reached print, when her poem titled In Duty Bound appeared in the Woman's Journal.

The Domestic Affections was not reviewed, but FH was slowly gaining recognition. In 1815 Walter Scott published in the Edinburgh Annual Register a poem by her inspired by his novel Waverley.

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) began her literary career at the age of nine by publishing under her own name two stories, Lost, a Dog and How Mark Selby Won His Public House, both in The Fountain.

CH said she had published sixty anonymous articles in periodicals; she began doing this early in the nineteenth century. She placed accounts of her various holiday travels, in epistolary form, in the Monthly Magazine between 1815 and 1818. One is called Tour in Wales, a title made famous by Thomas Pennant . The manuscript of these survives, marking a halfway stage between letters as originally sent and as printed in the magazine.

GJ 's ambition was to be a journalist, but ill health prevented her from devoting her life to the profession. Nevertheless, she published in several leading journals including Household Words, Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, and Anna Maria Hall 's Juvenile Budget. While living in Manchester, she wrote articles and theatre reviews for the Manchester Examiner and Times.

Twenty-one-year-old EL published An Addition to Mr. Birchall 's List of 'The Lepidoptera of Ireland' in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine.

They appeared in November as by K. Mansfield, and were followed by further contributions.

EM 's career as a writer began in 1833 when she helped her eldest brother prepare his reports as a tithe commissioner for the eastern counties. She soon began contributing regularly to periodicals including Eliza Cook's Journal, Hood's Magazine, People's Journal, Tait's Magazine, Chambers's Journal, Country Words.

MM 's earliest publication appeared while she was still a student at Bryn Mawr : the short story Yorrocks in the college magazine Tipyn O'Bob.

The earliest published writing of JM was reportage, first for the Western Daily Press in Bristol (which brought the excitement of interviewing visiting American film-stars and other performers) and then for the Arab News Agency in Cairo, which was British-owned, with both British and Arab staff. The work there involved personal risk for political reasons, yet, unusually, women participated on equal terms with men. As a mature undergraduate Morris both wrote for and edited the student newspaper, Cherwell, and first published in the national press with an article for the Spectator in 1950.  Morris's first in the international press was an essay about Oxford published in Horizon (USA); years as Middle East correspondent of The Times provided the starting points for a number of books.

Henrietta Müller 's articleSchools in Florence, which is probably her first, appeared in Macmillan's Magazine under her own name.