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...
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Wilkie Collins
His first monographic publication was Memoirs of the Life of William Collins
, Esq., R.A., 1848, a biography of his landscape-painter father.
Peters, Catherine. The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins. Minerva (imprint of Octopus).
