 They worked as journalist, and also trained other women in composition, proof-reading, journalism, and such like connected matters.Georgiana and Emily wrote the "Woman's Page" in the Westminster and Lambeth Gazette up until their father's retirement in 1891.Georgiana published "A History of English Dress from the Saxon Period to the Present Day" in 1893, a "classic example of the cultural and social history publications characteristic of late nineteenth-century amateur women historians", in which she consistently criticised fashions that were uncomfortable, ostentatious or impractical.