They ran a private school at Jesmond (now a suburb of Newcastle) in the late 1870s and both later held posts as governesses.
[3][2] Thereafter the Elliot sisters seem to have shared accommodation at boarding houses on the English coast and in the London suburbs.
Anne Elliot's first novel of a dozen, Dr. Edith Romney (1883), centres on a female general practitioner in a country town.
Evelyn's Career (1891) presents "another strong-minded heroine" amid realistic scenes of London poverty.
[2] A critic in the 1990s concluded that "AE's novels are long and her plots over-complicated, but her writing is not without talent.