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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wilkie_CollinsWilkie Collins - Wikipedia

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   Signature. 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 ...

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Wilkie-CollinsWilkie Collins | Victorian era, detective fiction, novels

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   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.

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4. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-sensationThe Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian ...

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   Jan 29, 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Wilkie Collins, who pioneered the detective novel and exposed the plight of Victorian women through his fiction. Discover how he drew on his legal training, his friendship with Charles Dickens and his own experiences to create gripping stories that challenged social injustice.

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5. fivebooks.com › best-books › wilkie-collins-jason-hallThe Best Books by Wilkie Collins - Five Books Expert ...

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   Apr 13, 2016 · Jason Hall, a Victorian literature expert and editor of Jezebel's Daughter, selects five novels by Wilkie Collins, the inventor of the detective genre. He discusses Collins's unconventional life, his eccentric characters, his social commentary and his legacy.

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7. www.goodreads.com › author › showWilkie Collins (Author of The Woman in White) - Goodreads

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   • Death Date: September 23, 1889

   • Birth Date: January 8, 1824

   • The Woman in White.
   • The Moonstone.
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   • Armadale by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland (Editor)

8. www.wilkie-collins.info › wilkie_collins_biographyWILKIE COLLINS - BIOGRAPHY AND LIFE

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   Learn about the life and works of Wilkie Collins, a prolific and influential Victorian novelist and friend of Charles Dickens. Explore his early years, his literary achievements, his health problems, his relationships and his legacy.

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   Who is Wilkie Collins?

   • For general readers today, Wilkie Collins is mostly remembered as the author of two books: The Woman in White, which recently appeared in a list of the 100 best mystery and thriller novels of all time by Time magazine, and The Moonstone, described by T.S. Eliot as "the first and greatest of English detective novels."

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   When did Wilkie Collins die?

   • When the English writer Wilkie Collins died in 1889 at age 65, the Athenaeum published only a lukewarm tribute:

   The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women

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   What books did Wilkie Collins write?

   • Let’s talk about the five books that you’ve chosen by Wilkie Collins. The first is Rambles Beyond Railways (1851). Tell me about it. I chose this because it’s not the usual fare for people who know a little about Collins. They know him as an author of crazy novels, of the sensation novel. This predates most of that work.

   The Best Books by Wilkie Collins

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   Did Wilkie Collins really make 'em Laugh?

   • Wilkie Collins, the sensationalist author and inventor of the detective novel, knew precisely how to "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait”.

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10. www.cbc.ca › radio › ideasWilkie Collins: A true detective of the human mind | CBC Radio

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    Jan 8, 2024 · Explore the life and work of Wilkie Collins, the Victorian writer who pioneered detective fiction and sensation novels. Learn how he used mystery and suspense to investigate the changing world and the human psyche.