Helen C. Black

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...

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...

Following their marriage, EG and her husband lived at Brzezno in Galicia (once seized by Austria from Poland, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black ; now Berezhany in Ukraine. They later lived in...

She had there a little house at one end of a picturesque terrace. When Helen C. Black visited her there, her upstairs study was furnished with a Moroccan carpet, pottery from Greece and other countries...

Helen Black wrote of this book that the characters were all more or less drawn from people whom she knew.

MAD begins by suggesting that Clifford's fiction gives her readers a delightful sense that we are in touch with an intensely sympathetic and womanly personality, then elaborates on her persona via her study, which MAD

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...

CR published another of her several novels about the business world, The Senior Partner, which Helen C. Black rated entrancing.

LTM published A World of Girls: The Story of a School, which Helen C. Black called her most successful book.

In an interview of 1893, Helen C. Black described RNC as tall, slender, and erect with large blue-grey eyes with long lashes,soft dark hair, and a low, tuneful voice. Carey revealed in this...

CR told Helen Black , I never remember the time . . . when I did not compose. Before she could hold a pen, her mother would write down her ideas for stories for...

The Moors and the Fens was marked by the fact that CR was writing it while her mother was dying. It went through several editions, one of 1876 being illustrated by Walter Crane ...

BMC told journalist Helen Black that she loved writing, and loved hearing from readers that she had given them pleasure. She liked to get up early, and when engrossed in a novel could work for...

She seems to have have chosen anonymity and secrecy because she began writing in the knowledge that her husband would disapprove. She wanted money to help her father out, also against her husband's wishes, and...

MA told critic Helen Black that one character was drawn from real life, but said, with a laugh, [I] will not tell you which it is.