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Textual Production | Mrs Alexander | She seems to have have chosen anonymity and secrecy because she began writing in the knowledge that her husband would disapprove. She wanted money to help her father out, also against her husband's wishes, and... |
Textual Production | Mrs Alexander | MA
told critic Helen Black
that one character was drawn from real life, but said, with a laugh, [I] will not tell you which it is. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 64 |
Reception | Mrs Alexander | Early critic Helen Black
found Her Dearest Foe to be quite absorbing. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 64 |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
published her romanticnovelKitty, which Helen C. Black
ranked as her most popular. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2158 (1869): 337 Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 125 |
Residence | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Helen C. Black
characterises this and her other travel books as immensely knowledgeable and written with brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 130 |
Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | It seems to have been published by Tauchnitz as The Sylvestres (a spelling followed by Helen Black
) and in the USA as The Sylvestres; or, The Outcasts. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 126 |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Rhoda Broughton | 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. Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable. 92 |
Residence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | 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... |
Textual Production | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black
described RNC
as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 147-8 |
Literary responses | Rosa Nouchette Carey | 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... |
Residence | B. M. Croker | In retirement BMC
and her husband seem at first to have lived in Dover. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 88 |
Occupation | B. M. Croker | 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... |
Textual Production | B. M. Croker | BMC
told journalist Helen Black
that she loved writing, and loved hearing from readers that she had given them pleasure. She liked to get up early, and when engrossed in a novel could work for... |
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