Helen C. Black

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

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...

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.

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...