For health reasons, English writer Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was sent away as a children to stay with relatives on a number of occasions, https://www.careexperienceandculture.com/master/harriet-martineau

In her 20s, Harriet Martineau took on the responsibility of providing for her family financially after their textile venture failed.

She began selling articles to the Monthly Repository, a Unitarian magazine. Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau financially and as a writer.

In this recent LitHub article https://lithub.com/the-forgotten-female-novelist-who-foresaw-ecology-environmentalism-and-realist-fiction/, John MacNeil Miller argues that, although Martineau is today almost forgotten, she shouldn’t be. Her work, he says,

“work wasn’t just social or sociological. It was ecological. She put far more thought into the entanglements that draw the fates of humans together with those of trees, water, grain, cattle, and fish than any English-speaking novelist I could find before her—or after her, for that matter… She reminds us that our individual and communal lives are not really so different from the lives of the animals and plants who share our planet. And in this age of extinction, that is a lesson we still desperately need to learn.”