by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
“I was alone with him, Marian—his cruel hand was bruising my arm—what could I do?” “Is the mark on your arm still? Let me see it.” “Why do you want to see it? “I want to see it, Laura, because our endurance must end, and our resistance must begin today. That mark is a...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Writing to Edward Pigott in July 1854, in a letter marked “Private,” Wilkie Collins offers his “deep sympathy” to his close friend and associate—not because Pigott has lost a family member but because the scandal surrounding Thornton Hunt’s adulterous relationship...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Deborah Wynne is concerned with both the material production of fiction and the experience of reading. In this informative study of the sensation novel in the 1860s, she reminds us that these two things are closely inter-related, and in ways which make our reading of...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
In his essay on “The Unknown Public” in Household Words in August 1858, Wilkie Collins assumed a great gulf fixed between the middle-class literary audience (“the subscribers to this journal, the customers at publishing houses, the members of book-clubs and...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
This well-printed, nicely-presented volume is the latest to appear in the Broadview Editions series. Earlier reprints of Heart and Science, The Moonstone and The Evil Genius are now followed by the novel of 1859-60, which established Collins as the most influential...
