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Helen C. Black
Standard Name: Black, Helen C.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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... |
Travel | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | |
Publishing | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
Reception | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
Birth | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
was born at Addlestone in Surrey (near Weybridge), the only (or at least the only surviving) child of writer Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
. Some sources give her date of birth as around... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iza Duffus Hardy | Thomas Duffus Hardy
, later Sir Thomas, a civil servant and Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Records, was IDH
's father. |
Leisure and Society | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
was, said Helen Black
, as much at home with the needle as with the pen. A large patchwork coverlet of her workmanship was displayed on the couch in the living-room of the maisonette... |
Literary responses | Iza Duffus Hardy | Helen Black
felt that this novel handled its difficult topic in masterly and skilful style. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 207 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | 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 |
Residence | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | 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... |
Reception | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | 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. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 201 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Education | Sarah Grand | SG
continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black
writes that SG
particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 282 |
Residence | Emily Gerard | Following their marriage, EG
and her husband lived at Brzezno in Galicia (once seized by Austria from Poland, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black
; now Berezhany in Ukraine. They later lived in... |
Birth | Dorothea Gerard | DG
was born at New Monkland in Lanarkshire, Scotland, not far from Glasgow, the youngest but one in a family of seven in which three boys preceded four girls. Memoirist Helen C. Black |
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