Helen C. Black

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

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

JF probably made the first of her visits to Germany, culminating in a fifteen-month stay in Düsseldorf with her sister Caroline and two friends.

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...

DG was born at New Monkland in Lanarkshire, Scotland, not far from Glasgow, the youngest but one in a family of seven in which three boys preceded four girls.

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

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

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.

During her teens EG was sent to a large, Catholic, Swiss boarding-school, the Convent of the Sacré Coeur at Riedenburg near Bregenz on Lake Constance in Austria, with Princesses Marguerite and Alix, daughters of...

Although SG was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic...

SG continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black writes that SG particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. But her...

IDH was born at Addlestone in Surrey (near Weybridge), the only (or at least the only surviving) child of writer Mary Anne Duffus Hardy .

Thomas Duffus Hardy , later Sir Thomas, a civil servant and Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Records, was IDH 's father.Helen Black noted when Iza was approaching middle age that she bore a striking...

IDH was, said Helen Black , as much at home with the needle as with the pen. A large patchwork coverlet of her workmanship was displayed on the couch in the living-room of the maisonette...