Helen C. Black

In the same year JM published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by...

Helen Black wrote of this book that the characters were all more or less drawn from people whom she knew.

MAD begins by suggesting that Clifford's fiction gives her readers a delightful sense that we are in touch with an intensely sympathetic and womanly personality, then elaborates on her persona via her study, which MAD

According to Helen C. Black , this work shows how Middlemass worked: by penetrating into the haunts of the poorest section of humanity in order to depict naturally and truthfully the scenes so touchingly described...

Following their marriage, EG and her husband lived at Brzezno in Galicia (once seized by Austria from Poland, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black ; now Berezhany in Ukraine. They later lived in...

RNC lived for about thirty-nine years in Hampstead (where, while she was growing up, her family moved from Hackney). She then moved again, south across London to spend nearly twenty years at Putney. Here...

In retirement BMC and her husband seem at first to have lived in Dover. By 1896 they were at Bray in Ireland, occupying a large, old-fashioned cottage amid wild, romantic scenery with...

LTM lived with her husband at West Dulwich, just south of London, for most of their married life. Helen C. Black visited her there in a house that reflected their artistic tastes.

Their first house in London was in an unfashionable area: 52 Camden Square. Helen C. Black , writing up a visit to them, made a good deal of the unexpected charms of this district...

Helen C. Black dated the end of MC 's girlhood in Ireland to the beginning of Irish land troubles: she probably meant the unrest and activism associated with the founding of the Irish National Land League

MADH called herself a Londoner pur et simple, having lived all her life there except for a few early married years at Addlestone (near Weybridge in Surrey). She spent many years at a pretty...

The teenage DG 's mother died, and she went to live with her recently married sister Emily de Laszowski at Brzezno in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia(now Berezhany, Ukraine, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black

For much of her adult life JM lived in Brompton Square, London (which, as noted by biographer Helen Black , has been inhabited by many famous literary and dramatic personalities). Black describes the Middlemass home...

She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries...

Geraldine Jewsbury reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR 's work heretofore.