by wilkieco | May 10, 2014 | Articles
Introduction On 22nd November 1876, the Fun newspaper reported the following incident: An unrehearsed performance of the Sanitorium scene from Miss Gwilt has been given with some success in Shrewsbury Gaol. Carbonic acid gas was introduced into the cells with the...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In 1852 Wilkie Collins wrote to his friend and colleague Edward Pigott: “I make no claim to orthodoxy. I am neither a protestant, a catholic nor a dissenter. I do not desire to discuss this or that particular creed but I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In his article “Wilkie Collins, Edmund Yates and The World” (Wilkie Collins Society Journal 4 (1984) 5-17), Andrew Gasson documented the long friendship between Collins and Yates, noting a number of effusive tributes to Collins in Yates’s weekly...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
A photograph of Dickens’s acting company taken after the London performances of The Frozen Deep, includes a woman in a bonnet sitting behind Wilkie Collins, between his friends Edward Pigott and Augustus Egg. She is neither young nor beautiful, but she has a...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In his introduction to After Dark, W. A. Brockington remarks that Wilkie Collins was fascinated by the stage, and offers the opinion that the writer “understood the world of theatre … better than [he] … understood the world of real life”...
