Helen C. Black

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.

Helen C. Black characterises this and her other travel books as immensely knowledgeable and written with brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting.

Helen C. Black in 1896 cited many people as considering this to be DG 's best work so far. She praised its originality, vivacity, its knowledge of human nature, and its delicacy of touch.

Among novels particularly praised by Helen C. Black in 1896 were Etelka's Vow (1892) a study of revenge, and Lot 13 (1894), set in the West Indies.

George Bainton in 1890 introduced her as the author of several powerful stories, admirably written, and revealing an individuality both striking and unconventional. Their tone is pure and lofty, their purpose wisely moral.Their graceful...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...