by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
JOINT MEETING WITH THE DICKENS FELLOWSHIP Michael Slater has revised the topic of his talk on Monday 4 November, 6.00 for 6.30 p.m. He will now be speaking on Collins’s collaboration with Dickens in writing Christmas Stories for Household Words andAll the Year...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
PUBLICATIONS So far this year, there has been a wide and varied range of publications by and about Collins: WILKIE COLLINS:THE COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION Despite the publishers’ best endeavours to keep it secret from the WCS, The Complete Shorter Fiction, edited...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 1995 The 1995 membership subscription is now due and should be sent to Louise Marchant at the above address. It has been held at £7.50 for UK and European members but in view of the high cost of overseas postage it is now necessary to...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | News
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL Members who have not done so already should send their 1994 subscriptions to Louise Marchant at the above address. KENSAL GREEN CEMETRY On Saturday July 2nd 1994 (2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.) the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetary (FOKGC) are once again...
by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | Articles
In Basil, his novel of contemporary life, Wilkie Collins’s eponymous protagonist talks of the “ghastly heart-tragedies … which are acted and re-acted, scene by scene, and year by year, in the secret theatre of home; tragedies which are ever shadowed by the slow...
