Helen C. Black

In the opinion of biographer Helen C. Black , the chief merit of this work is its animated dialogue.

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.

Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS sent a copy to Gladstone (she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)...

This was the earliest of her novels that she mentioned to Helen Black , as if she felt it was in a different category from her earlier efforts. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

Early critic Helen Black found Her Dearest Foe to be quite absorbing. Later critic Muriel Smith argues that its claims rest on its significant contribution to the development of detective fiction, rather than...

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

The 1880s marked the beginning of MCH 's relationship with publisher F. V. White . Houstoun informed Helen C. Black , who was interviewing her for a book, that He stands high amongst the publishers...

A woman of varied accomplishments,FM was said to have managed a school of journalism in addition to being an actress, singer (for some years distinguished upon the operatic stage),

BMC 's accepted status as a writer is marked both by her membership of the Writers' Club and the Sesame Club , and by the visit at Bray in 1896 from Helen Black , to...

Helen C. Black praised the individuality and charm of the heroine.

Helen C. Black characterises this and her other travel books as immensely knowledgeable and written with brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting.

Helen C. Black in 1896 cited many people as considering this to be DG 's best work so far. She praised its originality, vivacity, its knowledge of human nature, and its delicacy of touch.

Among novels particularly praised by Helen C. Black in 1896 were Etelka's Vow (1892) a study of revenge, and Lot 13 (1894), set in the West Indies.

George Bainton in 1890 introduced her as the author of several powerful stories, admirably written, and revealing an individuality both striking and unconventional. Their tone is pure and lofty, their purpose wisely moral.Their graceful...

The Good Words serial aroused some anxiety in readers because of its socialistic views. Helen C. Black , recording this response twenty years after the event, observed that such ideas seemed alien to many ordinary...