Helen C. Black

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.

The Good Words serial aroused some anxiety in readers because of its socialistic views. Helen C. Black , recording this response twenty years after the event, observed that such ideas seemed alien to many ordinary...

Helen Black felt that this novel handled its difficult topic in masterly and skilful style.

By this time the Popular Edition of RNC 's novels, bearing her curly initials on their covers and her portrait at the back of the books, had been coming out for some years, and she...

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...

Helen C. Black praised this book's characters, structure, plotting, and touches of humour.

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.

ELL liked to give a helping hand to young writers. She particularly favoured the novelist Beatrice Harraden (more than forty years her junior, and just the kind of new woman whom Linton might have been...

In the prime of her career, HM was an active member of fashionable society. According to Ludgate Monthly in November 1892, she was frequently seen at the various functions indispensible to Vanity Fair [though] she...

RB was fond of dogs, and in her Oxford days was known for her habit of striding about the town followed by at least two (and usually more) pugdogs.Ethel Arnold recalled a pug...

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...

As a result of being placed in a class of girls much older than herself, HM apparently worked so hard that quite suddenly her health broke down, and her education was cut short. Helen Black

MADH moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall and Anna Maria Hall

Helen Black , having interviewed HM at her home in Grosvenor Street, London, described her as essentially a domestic woman who gave the impression that her career was little more than a hobby.