Helen C. Black

A woman of varied accomplishments,FM was said to have managed a school of journalism in addition to being an actress, singer (for some years distinguished upon the operatic stage),

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...

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.

Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS sent a copy to Gladstone (she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)...

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. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

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...

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

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...

In the opinion of biographer Helen C. Black , the chief merit of this work is its animated dialogue.

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...

LTM lived with her husband at West Dulwich, just south of London, for most of their married life. Helen C. Black visited her there in a house that reflected their artistic tastes.

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...

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

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...

The teenage DG 's mother died, and she went to live with her recently married sister Emily de Laszowski at Brzezno in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia(now Berezhany, Ukraine, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black