Helen C. 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

MADH called herself a Londoner pur et simple, having lived all her life there except for a few early married years at Addlestone (near Weybridge in Surrey). She spent many years at a pretty...

This was the earliest of her novels that she mentioned to Helen Black , as if she felt it was in a different category from her earlier efforts. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

IDH was born at Addlestone in Surrey (near Weybridge), the only (or at least the only surviving) child of writer Mary Anne Duffus Hardy .

MCH and her husband sailed again for North America; this time they stopped briefly at Halifax, Canada, early in their trip, and visited both northern and southern regions of the United States.

The 1880s marked the beginning of MCH 's relationship with publisher F. V. White . Houstoun informed Helen C. Black , who was interviewing her for a book, that He stands high amongst the publishers...

In an interview with Helen C. BlackMCH reflected that out of all of her books I look back with thankfulness to my novelette, entitled Only a Woman's Life, the writing of which was...

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...

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...

A woman of varied accomplishments,FM was said to have managed a school of journalism in addition to being an actress, singer (for some years distinguished upon the operatic stage),

HM 's home in Grosvenor Street was described in detail by Helen Black . The rooms were ornamented with heavily embossed gold leather paper on the walls and orange-coloured Indian scarves that drape the exquisite...

Descriptions of her childhood in Helen Black 's Notable Women Authors of the Day indicate that she came from a comfortable English family in the gentry or upper middle class. Her father called himself a...

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

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.

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...