Helen C. Black

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.

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...

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...

Helen C. Black wrote warmly of ASS 's column as a kind of medium between her and her readers,, regarded by many readers as the best bit of the magazine.

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.

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