Helen C. Black

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.

MCH and her husband sailed again for North America; this time they stopped briefly at Halifax, Canada, early in their trip, and visited both northern and southern regions of the United States.

JF probably made the first of her visits to Germany, culminating in a fifteen-month stay in Düsseldorf with her sister Caroline and two friends.

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...