by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Mary Braddon, in a magazine interview, acknowledged the debt her hugely successful novel of 1862, Lady Audley’s Secret, owed to Wilkie Collins’s novel of 1860, The Woman in White. In her novel she had reversed Collins’s central situations: her criminal is female, her...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Mid-Victorian constructions of hysteria were defined by inconsistency and contradiction. ((Although the main sources for my historical material are nineteenth-century medical treatises and journals, a number of interesting studies on hysteria have appeared in recent...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Wilkie Collins began his writing career at a time of economic, social and architectural changes, in which “Britain became the workshop of the world” (Pykett 31). The negotiation between conservatism and modernization was a distinctive mark of “those turbulent years of...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Much critical speculation has been aired about the possible biographical, topical, and literary influences on Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, an epistolary sensation novel that first appeared in serial form in 1859 in All the Year Round and took its Victorian...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
By Paul Lewis When Caroline Graves moved in with Wilkie Collins – probably around 1858 – he cared for her young daughter Elizabeth Harriet and treated her as his own. New evidence has come to light which shows that from Autumn 1860 to Summer 1868 Wilkie paid for...
