Helen C. Black

Nearly twenty years after it was first published, Helen C. Black , on her way to interview LTM at West Dulwich, bought Scamp and I at the station in its sixpenny edition, and became...

Memoirist Helen C. Black thought A World of Girls, 1886, A Sweet Girl-Graduate, 1891, and Bashful Fifteen, 1892, probably LTM 's best. In her books for girls, wrote Black, LTM seemed to...

Memoirist Helen C. Black wrote that the adult fiction proved that LTM could write equally well for children of a larger growth.

Helen C. Black thought this novel original and interesting, and its denouement strikingly artistic.

LTM published A World of Girls: The Story of a School, which Helen C. Black called her most successful book.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

CR published another of her several novels about the business world, The Senior Partner, which Helen C. Black rated entrancing.

Some sources say that Ellen Kilshaw was of Scots descent, but CR clearly says her mother was English. Ellen was noted for her beauty, grace, and accomplishment. Past seventy and taking an elegiac tone in...

CR told Helen Black , I never remember the time . . . when I did not compose. Before she could hold a pen, her mother would write down her ideas for stories for...

The Moors and the Fens was marked by the fact that CR was writing it while her mother was dying. It went through several editions, one of 1876 being illustrated by Walter Crane ...