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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Wilkie Collins was an English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction. The son of William Collins (1788–1847), the landscape painter, he developed a gift for inventing tales while still a schoolboy at a private boarding school.
Apr 13, 2016 · Wilkie Collins, the sensationalist author and inventor of the detective novel, knew precisely how to "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait”. Jason Hall , Victorian literature expert and editor of a new edition of Jezebel's Daughter , chooses the five best books from Collins's extensive oeuvre – and considers the voracious ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws regarding marital and property rights
Jan 3, 2023 · Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary...
The Wilkie Collins Society publishes biographical accounts of Wilkie Collins and his family. They range from interviews with Wilkie Collins and recollections by people who knew him to modern studies of his life, family, and finances. Available to download free.
A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed.
Feb 3, 2020 · Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889) has been called the grandfather of the English detective novel.
Mar 2, 2011 · Wilkie Collins (b. 1824–d. 1889) was one of the most influential authors of the 19th century. He was credited with creating sensation fiction with his best-known work The Woman in White in 1860 and detective fiction with The Moonstone in 1868. He wrote novels, plays, short stories, and journalism.
Wilkie Collins was a popular and prolific novelist whose career spanned most of the second half of the nineteenth century.
