Athenæum. J. Lection.
3081 (1886): 632
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | L. T. Meade | LTM
published A World of Girls: The Story of a School, which Helen C. Black
called her most successful book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 3081 (1886): 632 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 228 |
Residence | L. T. Meade | LTM
lived with her husband at West Dulwich, just south of London, for most of their married life. Helen C. Black
visited her there in a house that reflected their artistic tastes. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 222 |
Textual Features | L. T. Meade | Helen Black
wrote of this book that the characters were all more or less drawn from people whom she knew. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 225 |
Literary responses | L. T. Meade | 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... |
Literary responses | L. T. Meade | 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... |
Literary responses | L. T. Meade | Memoirist Helen C. Black
wrote that the adult fiction proved that LTM
could write equally well for children of a larger growth. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 222 |
Literary responses | L. T. Meade | Helen C. Black
thought this novel original and interesting, and its denouement strikingly artistic. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 227 |
Residence | Jean Middlemass | For much of her adult life JM
lived in Brompton Square, London (which, as noted by biographer Helen Black
, has been inhabited by many famous literary and dramatic personalities). Black describes the Middlemass home... |
Reception | Jean Middlemass | In the opinion of biographer Helen C. Black
, the chief merit of this work is its animated dialogue. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 267 |
Textual Features | Jean Middlemass | According to Helen C. Black
, this work shows how Middlemass worked: by penetrating into the haunts of the poorest section of humanity in order to depict naturally and truthfully the scenes so touchingly described... |
Textual Production | Jean Middlemass | In the same year JM
published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by... |
Reception | Charlotte Riddell | Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed this novel too for the Athenæum the year after publication, and she found it excellent . . . powerfully and carefully written, far superior to CR
's work heretofore. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Riddell | Helen C. Black
praised this book's characters, structure, plotting, and touches of humour. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 16 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | CR
published another of her several novels about the business world, The Senior Partner, which Helen C. Black
rated entrancing. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 20 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Riddell | 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... |
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