by wilkieco | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles
Just six days after Eustace Macallan of Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady (1875) marries his new wife, he pleads with her to cease looking for clues regarding his past. He attempts to frighten her away from the truth, exclaiming, ‘Valeria! if you ever discover...
by wilkieco | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles
In an October 1859 letter, Charles Dickens disagreed with Wilkie Collins’s advice to draw a more explicit connection between two characters in A Tale of Two Cities: ‘I do not positively say that the point you put, might not have been done in your manner; but […]...
by wilkieco | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles
In his Introductory Words to the 1879 novelisation of A Rogue’s Life, Wilkie Collins apologises to the reader if they find any undue levity in the work, or if they discern ‘a tone of almost boisterous gaiety in certain parts of these imaginary Confessions’ (iv)....
by wilkieco | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles
This article is officially about Wilkie Collins’s and Henry Brandling’s illustrated narrative of their walking tour of Cornwall in 1850, but like all proper travelogues, I need to begin somewhere else. Specifically, I need to embark with a brief synopsis of another...
by wilkieco | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles
Hidden away in the dauntingly extensive Richard Gimbel Charles Dickens Collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, is a Dickensian treasure trove of manuscripts, letters and rare editions, collected by Colonel Richard Gimbel (1898-1970) over forty-five years....
