Helen C. Black

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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),

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...

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

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.

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...

Helen Black felt that this novel handled its difficult topic in masterly and skilful style.

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...

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...