Helen C. Black

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

Their first house in London was in an unfashionable area: 52 Camden Square. Helen C. Black , writing up a visit to them, made a good deal of the unexpected charms of this district...

This firm caught her by advertising for manuscripts. Helen C. Black recorded that this first book took a long time for ASS to write. She had to cut it again and again in draft. She...

Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS sent a copy to Gladstone (she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)...

Helen C. Black wrote warmly of ASS 's column as a kind of medium between her and her readers,, regarded by many readers as the best bit of the magazine.

ASS published advice in book form as well as in magazines, for instance Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-making, 1893. This book, said Helen C. Black , was inspired by young...

CR published another of her several novels about the business world, The Senior Partner, which Helen C. Black rated entrancing.

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...

CR told Helen Black , I never remember the time . . . when I did not compose. Before she could hold a pen, her mother would write down her ideas for stories for...

The Moors and the Fens was marked by the fact that CR was writing it while her mother was dying. It went through several editions, one of 1876 being illustrated by Walter Crane ...

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.

Helen C. Black praised this book's characters, structure, plotting, and touches of humour.

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...

In the opinion of biographer Helen C. Black , the chief merit of this work is its animated dialogue.

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...