Dick Collins

Collins speculates, however, that his heart was not in it, pointing out that he was apparently not an enthusiastic Mason: although he attended Lodge meetings at the Worthing Lodge of Friendship, he ceased to pay...

Together they had a son, Francis Chadwick Rymer, in October 1840.

Collins speculates that JMR 's first wife, Caroline , most likely died between 1852 and 1855, as JMR 's literary output falls sharplybetween these dates, though there is no record of the cause of...

At this date, a census report tells us, JMR still thought of himself as a civil engineer, though according to independent scholar Dick Collins he seems not to have had formal training, and doesn't appear...

Though JMR was typically thought to hail from a middle-class background, Dick Collins emphasizes that he spent most of his childhood growing up in the third most deprived parish in England; his childhood home...

JMR 's finances were badly damaged when his periodical the Queen's Magazine collapsed in 1842. He filed for bankruptcy only two years after the success of Varney the Vampire, and was granted the status...