Helen C. Black

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...

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...

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...

In an interview with Helen C. BlackMCH reflected that out of all of her books I look back with thankfulness to my novelette, entitled Only a Woman's Life, the writing of which was...

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.

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...

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...