Wilkie Collins biography
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Wilkie Collins () was one of the best-selling authors of the nineteenth century. He was a friend of Charles Dickens, and like his more famous contemporary he maximised his commercial success by publishing in all available formats. His work appeared as newspaper journalism, short stories, magazine serials, novels in three volume format, and adaptations for the stage. Even in his private life he was similarly prolific. He supported two separate families who lived round the corner from each other.
Wilkie Collins was born in London in His father William was a reasonably successful painter &#; a member of the Royal Academy &#; but &#;constitutionally insecure and self-critical&#;. His mother Harriet was a governess and proved to be the principal agent in Wilkie&#;s early education.
The family lived in Cavendish Street and took their summer holidays in what was then the outlying rural area of Hampstead. This was a location favoured by artists, and family friends included the painter Constable and the poet and &#;philosopher&#; Coleridge.
Wilkie was educated largely by his mother, but in wh
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A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White," two early masterpieces of mystery and detection. Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely near-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women--and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, "the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists," from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his lifelong friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, "The Moonstone"--often called the first true detective novel--and the sensational "The Woman in White," he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works. Told with Ackroy
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illiam Wilkie Collins, inventor of the Sensation Novel, was born on 8 January , the son of the popular landscape painter, William Collins, R. A. According to John Bowen, "Collins had an unusual childhood, as singular in its way as that of Dickens or the Brontës. . . . Although Wilkie had an affectionate childhood it was anything but bohemian or liberal, and his father's High Tory Evangelicalism gave him a distatste for respectable piety and organized religion that was to last his life" (4). At age 22, he became a law student at London's Lincoln's Inn. Collins was called to the bar in , the same year in which he first met novelist Charles Dickens, with whom he is still so closely associated that he has been called "the Dickensian Ampersand." He never practised law, adopting literature as his profession instead. Between and his death in , he wrote 25 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and more than non-fiction pieces. A close friend of Dickens from their meeting in March until Dickens' death in , Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers.
In Dickens's second
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Wilkie Collins was born on 8 January and died on 23 September In those 65 years he wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, at least 14 plays, and more than non-fiction pieces. A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March until Dickens's death in June , 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's bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has for fifty years. Most of his books are in print - and all are now in e-text - he is studied widely, and new film, television and radio versions of some of his books have been made. All his known letters have been published. And new book length studies of his work or life appear frequently. But there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.
Find out more about The Public Face of Wilkie Collins - the Collected Letters
Join the Wilkie Collins Society
- E-texts - links to e-texts of all of Wilkie's fiction, all of his books, and most of his other works. Now includes the text of his first known story
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