Wilkie Collins

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Standard Name: Collins, Wilkie
Used Form: William Wilkie Collins
Used Form: W. Wilkie Collins
Best remembered for his sensational fiction of the 1860s, WC was, in the course of his forty-year writing career, the author of many ingeniously-plotted novels, as well as a writer of plays (some in collaboration with Charles Dickens ), short stories, a biography of his father, and a travel book. Innovative narrative technique is a feature of his work, along with legal and social critique. His writings are also notable, in a literary culture that viewed physical difference as a marker of moral failure, for their sympathetic representation of disability.
Caricature of Wilkie Collins, with oversized head and hat and skinny legs. He is putting up a poster for The Woman in White and his jacket pocket is stuffed with posters.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB recalled the publisher's desire for a blend of the human interest and genial humour of Dickens with the plot-weaving of G. W. M. Reynolds .
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth et al. “My First Novel”. The Trail of the Serpent, edited by Chris Willis and Chris Willis, Modern Library, 2003, pp. 415-27.
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She indeed opens with a Dickensian flourish, conjuring...
Textual Production Charles Dickens
Other contributions were appeared from Mrs Alexander , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Caroline Chisholm (later parodied by CD ), Wilkie Collins , Dinah Mulock and Georgiana Craik , Amelia B. Edwards ,...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS supplied another introduction in 1944, to the Everyman's Library edition of Wilkie Collins 's The Moonstone.
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
Illustrated by George du Maurier , this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope and Thackeray , and shared the lead with Collins 's Armadale. EG received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC also supported other writers on the subject, such as Wilkie Collins , whom she supplied with materials towards his novel Heart and Science, 1883.
Collins, Wilkie. “Appendices”. Heart and Science, edited by Steve Farmer, Broadview Press, 1996, pp. 329-79.
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Wealth and Poverty Ellen Wood
Her estate was valued at £36,393, 13s. 3d., a substantial amount for any writer of the period (and considerably more than contemporaries such as Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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