Helen C. Black

Standard Name: Black, Helen C.

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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.
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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
Later critic Muriel Smith argues that its claims rest on its significant contribution to the development of detective fiction, rather than...
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
Ethel Arnold recalled a pug...
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
Carey revealed in this...
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
By 1896 they were at Bray in Ireland, occupying a large, old-fashioned cottage amid wild, romantic scenery with...
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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Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren, 1906.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.