Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode.
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Reception | Lucy Walford | |
Residence | Annie S. Swan | 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... |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | 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... |
Reception | Annie S. Swan | |
Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | 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. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 344 |
Textual Production | Annie S. Swan | 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... |
Reception | Charlotte Riddell | 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1947 (1865): 233 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Riddell | Helen C. Black
praised this book's characters, structure, plotting, and touches of humour. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 16 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | CR
published another of her several novels about the business world, The Senior Partner, which Helen C. Black
rated entrancing. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 20 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Riddell | 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... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | CR
told Helen Black
, I never remember the time . . . when I did not compose. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 19 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Riddell | The Moors and the Fens was marked by the fact that CR
was writing it while her mother was dying. Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press. 272 |
Residence | Jean Middlemass | 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... |
Reception | Jean Middlemass | In the opinion of biographer Helen C. Black
, the chief merit of this work is its animated dialogue. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 267 |
Textual Features | Jean Middlemass | 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... |
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