Newsletter – Spring 2003

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES The British Association for Victorian Studies is making a call for papers for its forthcoming meeting ‘The Age of Experiments, 1800-1900’at the University of Wales Aberystwyth on 4-6 September 2003 They invite proposals for...

Newsletter – Winter 2002

OUR NEW PATRON We are delighted to announce that the Wilkie Collins Society has a new patron in the distinguished form of Baroness James of  Holland Park who joins our other long-standing patron Faith Clarke, great-granddaughter of Wilkie Collins. Baroness James is...

Newsletter – Summer 2002

VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCES Enclosed with this Newsletter is the Society’s latest publication, the first complete edition of Victims of Circumstances Discovered in Records of Old Trials.  It had always been thought that Collins wrote only two of these short pieces based...

Newsletter – Spring 2002

‘VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCES – PART THREE REDISCOVERED’ Some exciting news from Graham Law reveals a previously unknown short story by Wilkie. In November 1884 the publishers of a popular weekly family paper, The Youth’s Companion of Boston, Massachusetts,...

Newsletter – Winter 2001

WCS JOURNAL 2001 Enclosed with this Newsletter is Volume 4 of the Wilkie Collins Society Journal, now produced in the more standard A5 format.  As ever, we are grateful for the editorial skills of Graham Law and Lillian Nayder and to the authors of the various...