Helen C. Black

Standard Name: Black, Helen C.

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Residence Emily Gerard
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...
Residence Matilda Betham-Edwards
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...
Residence Rosa Nouchette Carey
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...
Residence L. T. Meade
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.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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Textual Features Mary Angela Dickens
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
Textual Features Jean Middlemass
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...
Textual Features L. T. Meade
Helen Black wrote of this book that the characters were all more or less drawn from people whom she knew.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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Textual Production B. M. Croker
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...
Textual Production Mrs Alexander
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...
Textual Production Mrs Alexander
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.
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE published her romanticnovelKitty, which Helen C. Black ranked as her most popular.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2158 (1869): 337
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
125
Textual Production Jean Middlemass
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...
Textual Production Annie S. Swan
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...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Textual Production Annie S. Swan
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...

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