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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 example of ...
Jan 29, 2024 · History | January 29, 2024. The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women. Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws...
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. His first published.
William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years. Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel.
A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed.
Jan 3, 2023 · Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism,...
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1860 and set from 1849 to 1850. It started its publication on 26 November 1859 and its publication was completed on 25 August 1860.
The Wilkie Collins Society publishes biographical accounts of Wilkie Collins and his family. They range from interviews with Wilkie Collins and recollections by people who knew him to modern studies of his life, family, and finances. Available to download free.
Jan 8, 2024 · Considered one of the first writers of mysteries, and the father of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins used the genres to investigate the rapidly changing world around him, and to upend...
The Woman in White, novel by Wilkie Collins, published serially in All the Year Round (November 1859–July 1860) and in book form in 1860. Noted for its suspenseful plot and unique characterization, the successful novel brought Collins great fame; he adapted it into a play in 1871.
