Wilkie Collins – Lunacy on the Isle of Man

Wilkie Collins only visited the Isle of Man once, in August 1863, to do some research for his novelArmadale. Caroline Graves and her daughter Harriet went with him. He did not like it there, found what he needed for his book and left within a week. Nuel Pharr Davis in...

World Wide Wilkie

The Internet should be there to give you information you cannot get elsewhere – or find it for you more easily. Sadly much of the effort put into finding information is wasted. This short guide leads you to the best of Wilkie on the Web. The text of this piece...

The Woman in White – A Chronological Study

By Andrew Gasson Text and images © Andrew Gasson 2010 The Woman in White was first published in serial form in All the Year Round from 26 November 1859 to 25 August 1860 (40 parts) and concurrently in Harper’s Weekly from 26 November 1859 to 8 September 1860 (42 parts...

The Wilkie Collins Memorial Library – A Dead Secret

Wilkie Collins died on 23 September 1889.  Ten days later, on 3 October, a letter was published in The Times with a view to settting up a Wilkie Collins Memorial Fund: A MEMORIAL TO WILKIE COLLINS “… a movement is on foot to erect (in Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s)...

Wilkie Collins – Recent Spanish editions

All listed books are currently available (25/07/00) Editorial Montesinos, Barcelona: La dama de blanco [The Lady in White], translation by Maruja Gómez Senegalés, first published April, 1984, reprinted many times since. ISBN: 84-89354-20-0. La piedra lunar [The...