Helen Cecelia Black
Helen Cecelia Black (née Spottiswoode; 12 November 1836[1] – 8 February 1906) was an English journalist, best known for the series of interviews with women writers published in book form in 1893 as Notable Women Authors of the Day.
Life
[edit]Helen Spottiswoode was born in Cawnpore, Bengal, India,[2] the daughter of Maj.-Gen. Arthur Cole Spottiswoode and Jessy Eliza Loveday. In 1856, she married Thomas Black, a captain and company manager for P&O. She founded St Mary's Cottage Hospital, a charity hospital specializing in leg ailments, in Southampton in 1872. After her husband's death in 1879, she moved to London and worked as a journalist for periodicals including the Lady’s Pictorial, Womanhood, Black and White, The Sketch and Queen. Her friends included Sarah Grand and Marie Corelli.[3]
Works
[edit]- Notable women authors of the day; biographical sketches, 1893
- Pen, pencil, baton and mask; biographical sketches, 1896
- From Deal to South Africa, 1901
References
[edit]- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947
- ^ 1851 Scotland Census
- ^ Ann R. Hawkins; Maura C. Ives (2012). Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7546-6702-5.
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