Helen C. Black

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...

LTM published A World of Girls: The Story of a School, which Helen C. Black called her most successful book.

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.

Helen Black wrote of this book that the characters were all more or less drawn from people whom she knew.

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...

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...

Memoirist Helen C. Black wrote that the adult fiction proved that LTM could write equally well for children of a larger growth.

Helen C. Black thought this novel original and interesting, and its denouement strikingly artistic.

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...

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...

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),

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...