Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman.
Helen C. Black
Standard Name: Black, Helen C.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Iza Duffus Hardy | Thomas Duffus Hardy
, later Sir Thomas, a civil servant and Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Records, was IDH
's father. |
Leisure and Society | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
was, said Helen Black
, as much at home with the needle as with the pen. A large patchwork coverlet of her workmanship was displayed on the couch in the living-room of the maisonette... |
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. 207 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall |
Travel | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | |
Publishing | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
Reception | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
liked to give a helping hand to young writers. She particularly favoured the novelist Beatrice Harraden
(more than forty years her junior, and just the kind of new woman whom Linton might have been... |
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... |
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 |
Cultural formation | Helen Mathers | Descriptions of her childhood in Helen Black
's Notable Women Authors of the Day indicate that she came from a comfortable English family in the gentry or upper middle class. Her father called himself a... |
Health | Helen Mathers | As a result of being placed in a class of girls much older than herself, HM
apparently worked so hard that quite suddenly her health broke down, Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 74 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Mathers | Helen Black
, having interviewed HM
at her home in Grosvenor Street, London, described her as essentially a domestic woman who gave the impression that her career was little more than a hobby. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 72, 79 |
Leisure and Society | Helen Mathers | In the prime of her career, HM
was an active member of fashionable society. According to Ludgate Monthly in November 1892, she was frequently seen at the various functions indispensible to Vanity Fair [though] she... |
Wealth and Poverty | Helen Mathers | HM
's home in Grosvenor Street was described in detail by Helen Black
. The rooms were ornamented with heavily embossed gold leather paper on the walls and orange-coloured Indian scarves that drape the exquisite... |
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