Helen C. Black

She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries...

Helen C. Black characterises this and her other travel books as immensely knowledgeable and written with brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting.

It seems to have been published by Tauchnitz as The Sylvestres (a spelling followed by Helen Black ) and in the USA as The Sylvestres; or, The Outcasts.

The Good Words serial aroused some anxiety in readers because of its socialistic views. Helen C. Black , recording this response twenty years after the event, observed that such ideas seemed alien to many ordinary...

MBE published her romanticnovelKitty, which Helen C. Black ranked as her most popular.

She seems to have have chosen anonymity and secrecy because she began writing in the knowledge that her husband would disapprove. She wanted money to help her father out, also against her husband's wishes, and...

MA told critic Helen Black that one character was drawn from real life, but said, with a laugh, [I] will not tell you which it is.

Early critic Helen Black found Her Dearest Foe to be quite absorbing. Later critic Muriel Smith argues that its claims rest on its significant contribution to the development of detective fiction, rather than...