Helen Heineman

FT had planned to live at Carlton Hill in the Lake District near her daughter Cecilia . However, after less than a year, she had already begun to make plans to leave the house she...

They built additions to the smallish building, giving the structure an odd shape, and though it was not nearly as nice as Julians, FT and her family managed to make their new home quite...

Set in an insular, scenic English village, the novel centres on the destructive impact of the newly appointed vicar, Mr Cartwright, whose self-seeking machinations almost destroyed the quiet and traditional patterns of a small village...

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

Throughout the 1840sFT published novels about the complications encountered by intelligent and independent young women in their search for happiness in marriage. Critic Helen Heineman observes, as she produced the light romances then in...

FT 's financial situation improved dramatically after the publication of her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832; the proceeds from her second book saved her family from poverty and enabled them to...