Helen C. Black

Helen C. Black praised the individuality and charm of the heroine.

Helen C. Black in 1896 cited many people as considering this to be DG 's best work so far. She praised its originality, vivacity, its knowledge of human nature, and its delicacy of touch.

Among novels particularly praised by Helen C. Black in 1896 were Etelka's Vow (1892) a study of revenge, and Lot 13 (1894), set in the West Indies.

During her teens EG was sent to a large, Catholic, Swiss boarding-school, the Convent of the Sacré Coeur at Riedenburg near Bregenz on Lake Constance in Austria, with Princesses Marguerite and Alix, daughters of...

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...

JF probably made the first of her visits to Germany, culminating in a fifteen-month stay in Düsseldorf with her sister Caroline and two friends.

MAD begins by suggesting that Clifford's fiction gives her readers a delightful sense that we are in touch with an intensely sympathetic and womanly personality, then elaborates on her persona via her study, which MAD

Helen C. Black dated the end of MC 's girlhood in Ireland to the beginning of Irish land troubles: she probably meant the unrest and activism associated with the founding of the Irish National Land League

In retirement BMC and her husband seem at first to have lived in Dover. By 1896 they were at Bray in Ireland, occupying a large, old-fashioned cottage amid wild, romantic scenery with...

BMC 's accepted status as a writer is marked both by her membership of the Writers' Club and the Sesame Club , and by the visit at Bray in 1896 from Helen Black , to...

BMC told journalist Helen Black that she loved writing, and loved hearing from readers that she had given them pleasure. She liked to get up early, and when engrossed in a novel could work for...

RNC lived for about thirty-nine years in Hampstead (where, while she was growing up, her family moved from Hackney). She then moved again, south across London to spend nearly twenty years at Putney. Here...

In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black described RNC as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Carey revealed in this...

By this time the Popular Edition of RNC 's novels, bearing her curly initials on their covers and her portrait at the back of the books, had been coming out for some years, and she...

RB was fond of dogs, and in her Oxford days was known for her habit of striding about the town followed by at least two (and usually more) pugdogs.Ethel Arnold recalled a pug...