Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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Helen C. Black
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Literary responses | Dorothea Gerard | Helen C. Black
praised the individuality and charm of the heroine. |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Gerard | 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. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 158-9 |
| Literary responses | Edna Lyall | 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... |
| Literary responses | Dorothea Gerard | 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. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 158, 160 |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Helen C. Black
characterises this and her other travel books as immensely knowledgeable and written with brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 130 |
| 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, 1896. 344 |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
| 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, 1893. 207 |
| Literary responses | Rosa Nouchette Carey | 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... |
| Literary responses | L. T. Meade | 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... |
| Literary responses | L. T. Meade | 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... |
| 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, 1893. 16 |
| Literary responses | L. T. Meade | Memoirist Helen C. Black
wrote that the adult fiction proved that LTM
could write equally well for children of a larger growth. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 222 |
| Literary responses | L. T. Meade | Helen C. Black
thought this novel original and interesting, and its denouement strikingly artistic. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 227 |
| Occupation | Florence Marryat | A woman of varied accomplishments, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Swan, Annie S. The Woman at Home. Warwick Magazine Company. 5 (1897): 191 |
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