MMB said that her commencing author, at first, was owing to an accidental visit to a family named Ball, where the girls made verses. She pursued two goals in her writing: she needed the money it brought her, for her large family of younger siblings; she also dreamed of fame. She probably published a great deal anonymously in magazines: she refers to reprinting poems that had appeared in the Athenæum; Matilda Betham-Edwards mentions her appearances in the Monthly Magazine. She also threw off an immense number of sonnets and other poetical pieces, copies of which, at the time, I was careless of retaining.

MBE very nearly became forever a poet instead of a prose writer, when Dickens accepted a poem of hers entitled The Golden Bee (describing a real-life shipwreck), and printed it in All the Year Round.

EOB had her first work of fiction accepted for publication in 1869, according to critic Stephen J. Brown in Ireland in Fiction. It is unclear where this was published, or what its title was. This acceptance is said to have confirmed her resolution to become a novelist. At some point between 1870 and 1872, she also published a long poem in the style of Richard Barham 's The Ingoldsby Legends in the short-lived Irish magazine Zozimus. Further works of poetry appeared in the Nation during the early 1870s. At some point EOB also contributed to the Irish Fireside, a supplement to the Weekly Freeman's Journal.

HB occasionally contributed articles to periodicals. In 1886, for example, her article The Relation of Women to the State in Past Times appeared in The National Review.

MB 's criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley (a version of a lecture given the previous year) was published in the Westminster Review.

Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) published her essay Women and Work in the Waverley Journal; it appeared as a pamphlet in April.

EB published poems in US, English, and Irish journals: among them the New Yorker, the Paris Review, American Poetry Review, the Atlantic, the Partisan Review, the Kenyon Review, the Seneca Review, the Yale Review, New Republic, Poetry, and PN Review and Poetry Ireland Review. She also appeared in anthologies, such as The Poetry Book Society Anthology, 1991, Soho Square, 1991, and New Poetry (published by Bloodaxe ), 1993.

I Accuse, an open letter which PB wrote in response to Germany's takeover of Austria (the Anschluss) in March, was eventually published the American magazine New Republic.

Dorothy Havers (later DB ) began publishing in the periodical Once a Week.

AB published The Song in the House, Stories in 1936. She tried to publish her stories in journals in the USA when possible, since the fees were two or three times what they were in England, but was warned by her agents that the Americans did not care for ghost stories, which were the kind she most liked to write.

Ironically, her grandfather's teaching seems to fit her for Christianity. After discovering the New Testament, apparently by chance, she is sent to a Christian school, with every precaution against this infecting her Jewish belief. She eventually converts to Christianity, but continues to care about her family. She learns self-expression by copying passages from her father's diary and papers as far as the death of her sister Sophia (that is, to the end of AB 's previous novel). At this point in the narrative: Her mind resembled a wild flower, springing up uncultivated. Nevertheless, needing money, she becomes a writer, who publishes rhymes, they deserved not the name of poetry in Ackermann's Poetry Magazine (by which she means the Forget-Me-Not, launched by Rudolph Ackermann in late 1822). Two of her hymns, which appear in the novel, describe herself as the meanest of a race . . . and a sinful worm. Finally after persecution and penury, Emma becomes the wife of an amiable and sincere Christian.

CB 's stay in Brussels (as well as contributing eventually to Villette) produced a number of French exercises or devoirs, plus her subsequent letters to Constantin Heger . Four of the letters (of which Elizabeth Gaskell had seen excerpts) were published in The Times in 1913. Heger instructed his pupils to compose essays in the style of the authors they had been studying; he left the choice of subject-matter to them. He wrote comments on most of these exercises, but there are none on the extant one. The fable, entitled L'Ingratitude, survives together with the four letters, and first saw print in the London Review of Books on 8 March 2012, having been presented by a member of the Heger family to a collector in the form of a small grey album. This contains the manuscript devoir, the four letters, and some photographs. Four of CB 's letters to Heger, including three which Mme Heger reconstructed after her husband had ripped up and discarded them (apparently in case she needed them to serve as evidence should any problem with Brontë arise) are now held at the British Library , preserved between panes of glass.

In SoundingsAB brought together reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books between the 1970s and the 1990s with three lectures originally given at the Courtauld Institute of Art .

EFB published a double essay in Annie Besant 's Our Corner entitled Women and their Sphere under her psuendonym, E. Fairfax Byrrne.

The Sunday Times carried an important article by BB (called seminal by Jon Wynne-Tyson almost forty years later) entitled The Rights of Animals.

RB 's first novel, Not Wisely, but Too Well, was serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, then edited by Sheridan Le Fanu , who was her uncle by marriage.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton published another successful novel: The Caxtons, A Family Picture, first serialised in Blackwood's Magazine.

Between 1836 and 1853, SB published at least fifty stories in Fraser's Magazine.

Although she did not publish the work written as Mark Drury, she did, during the three years beginning in autumn 1918 publish several other poems in literary magazines such as The Little Review, The Egoist, Georgian Stories, and The Dial.

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace , published A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, a translation from Luigi Menabrea 's work on Charles Babbage 's Analytical Engine. Her annotations tripled the length of the original.

Serializations of AC 's novels appeared regularly in journals, particularly the Australasian and the Sydney Mail, from 1875. Most of these were later revised for book publication in England and subsequently the USA. AC published in a number of other journals in Australia, the UK, and the USA, including, amongst many others, the Age, Longman's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and the North American Review.

MC was a frequent contributor of articles to periodicals and of papers to conferences, and many of her short pieces were later reprinted as free-standing pamphlets. In 1857 her Essay on 'Food, Labour, and Rest in Reformatories' was reprinted from The Philanthropist as a pamphlet. In 1861 her What shall we do with our Pauper Children? (originally a paper read at the Social Science Association in Dublin in August that year) was combined as a pamphlet with a Letter on the Charges of the Bristol Guardians Addressed to the Editors of the Bristol Daily Post and of the Western Daily Press, for publication at Dublin and Bristol respectively. In 1866 an article she had contributed to The Reformatory and Refuge Journal was reprinted at Bristol as A Day in the Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory. Our Memorial Tree and Our Anniversaries. In 1877 An Address on Prison Discipline and Juvenile Reformatories, which had first appeared in The Englishman, was reprinted at Calcutta by the Alipore Jail Press .

AC describes the genesis of Short Talks in a passage that calls into question her use (here and elsewhere) of the word poems. The book was initially a set of drawings with just titles. Then I expanded the titles a bit and then gradually realized nobody was interested in the drawings, so I just took the titles off and then they were pellets of a lecture. Selections from Short Talks had appeared in the Southwest Review in 1987 and the Yale Review in 1990. The collection has been several times reprinted, as well as included in Plainwater and in non-poetry anthologies, one of stories and one of essays. A re-issue of 2015 has a new afterword by the author and a new foreword by Margaret Christakos .

The career of Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary) in political writing began with the publication of a Letter she had written to Frederick Douglass in the current issue of his periodical, the North Star.