He was admitted while very young to Oxford University
(where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn
. He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...
Occupation
Wilkie Collins
In 1841 WC
began work as a tea importer's clerk; bored by the position, he published his first story. His father, landscape painter William Collins
, was impressed by his son's determination to write, and...