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...
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This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins. Iolani, or Tahiti as it was. A Romance (written 1844, published 1999) Antonina (1850) Basil (1852)...
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(1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "A House to Let" (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth...
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seen to have emerged as a definable genre in the wake of three novels: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (1859–60); Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne (1861);...
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The Woman in White (novel) (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
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...
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television adaptation of the 1860 sensation novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. The series began airing on BBC One on 22 April 2018, and stars Jessie...
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Sergeant Richard Cuff is a fictional character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone. He represents one of the earliest portrayals of a police detective...
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The Moonstone (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many...
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George Boole, lived at No.68 in 1865 following the death of her husband. Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, lived at No. 12 (later...
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by Wilkie Collins, the protagonist meets two women, Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie, who strongly resemble one another. (See also Wilkie Collins' The...
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The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. The book was dedicated to Caroline Graves. The plot details American Christian Socialist Amelius...
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played the lead role of Walter Hartright in the BBC adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White. Hardy played Queen drummer Roger Taylor in...
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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, written in collaboration with Wilkie Collins after their walking tour of Cumberland during September 1857 and published...
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by Wilkie Collins. Mangham, Andrew (2008). "Mental States: Political and Psychological Conflict in Antonina". In Andrew Mangham (ed.). Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary...
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a television drama series based on the 1868 novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It was broadcast in two parts in 1996. Greg Wise as Franklin Blake...
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weapons. One of the earliest references comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: "I begin to...
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North Genre, Politics and Place. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2020. p. 247. "Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone". British Library. Retrieved 13 April 2023. "Robert Louis...
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During this period, he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins. In 1856, his income from writing allowed him to buy Gads Hill Place...
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laudanum-addicted character also appeared in Wilkie Collins' novel Armadale (1864–1866). Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone (1868) features laudanum...
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in The Moonstone (1868), a 19th-century British epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins, generally considered to be the first full length detective novel in...
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Sir David Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety...
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Brotherhood. Collins was born in Hampstead, north London, the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins...
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No Thoroughfare (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage...
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the piled slabs to a stack of "cheeses" in a traditional cider press. Wilkie Collins described the Cheesewring in 1861 in his book Rambles Beyond Railways:...
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October 1857) with Wilkie Collins The Perils of Certain English Prisoners in the Extra Christmas Number (7 December 1857) with Wilkie Collins "A House to Let"...
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Basil (film) (category Films based on works by Wilkie Collins)
Derek Jacobi. It was based on the 1852 novel Basil by Victorian author Wilkie Collins. The adaptation is by Bharadwaj. Basil recalls his younger days when...
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original on 22 February 2014. Collins, Wilkie. "To Daniel S. Ford". In Paul Lewis (ed.). The Wilkie Collins Pages: Wilkie's Letters. Archived from the original...
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California, former name of Redwood Valley, California Basil (novel), by Wilkie Collins Basil (film), a 1998 film by Radha Bharadwaj starring Jared Leto Basil...
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mother and sister Maria, in three performances of The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins in Manchester in August 1857. It was not unusual for professional actresses...
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Sharpe, and the historic Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington. Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone includes a prologue that takes place during the Battle...
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