Helen C. Black

RNC lived for about thirty-nine years in Hampstead (where, while she was growing up, her family moved from Hackney). She then moved again, south across London to spend nearly twenty years at Putney. Here...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

MBE published her romanticnovelKitty, which Helen C. Black ranked as her most popular.

In the same year JM published two other works in three volumes. One of these, Sackcloth and Broadcloth, contained sketches that drew on her own experience of the clerical life. (Broadcloth is worn by...

This firm caught her by advertising for manuscripts. Helen C. Black recorded that this first book took a long time for ASS to write. She had to cut it again and again in draft. She...

It seems to have been published by Tauchnitz as The Sylvestres (a spelling followed by Helen Black ) and in the USA as The Sylvestres; or, The Outcasts.

ASS published advice in book form as well as in magazines, for instance Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-making, 1893. This book, said Helen C. Black , was inspired by young...

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