Benson Earle Hill

IH 's eldest brother, Benson Earle Hill , ten years older than she was, became her lifelong companion.

The Village Tomb-Cutter, which according to IH 's brotherattracted considerable attention, was among the stories published in the Forget-Me-Not.

IH and her brothervainly endeavored to understand why Germaine de Staël should be included in a standard English collection. Her translation was performed strictly with the object of profit, as she professed a...

My Own Twin Brother, a play or farce written collaboratively by IH and her brother Benson Earle Hill , was first produced at the English Opera House .

IH is best known as a writer for annuals, to which she made at least thirty-four contributions of short stories and comic articles for both children and adults. She wrote six dramas, and also published...

At the end of the third volume IH inserted a disclaimer about accuracy: since she had not seen revised proof, she wrote, there might be errors she did not know of; in that case she...

IH 's first play, The Poet's Child, a five-act verse tragedy, was published by her brother Benson Earle Hill in an edition which sold out in a few days.

In addition to annuals, IH published in several periodicals; but here, as so often, she encountered problems with stingy proprietors. One notable example was The Monthly Magazine: she supplied it with two highly-praised articles...

IH moved, presumably from Bristol, to stay with her brother Benson Hill at Archcliffe Fort in Dover.

IH moved to London, where for at least half a dozen years she and her brother Benson lived together at Cecil Street off the Strand.

IH 's five-act tragedy Brian, the Probationer; or, The Red Hand was posthumously published along with a memoir written by her brother Benson Earle Hill .

IH 's brother Benson Earle Hill laments that she destroyed her school journals some years before her death. He claims they were scattered with scraps of verse that demonstrated the germ of her talent.

IH attempted to support herself through writing. In his memoir, Benson Hill indicates that his sister's earnings were expected to provide necessary income for both of them.