by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
We begin this Newsletter with a theatrical flavour with two new books featuring Wilkie Collins and an article on the famous Woman in White poster. VICTORIAN WRITERS AND THE STAGE: THE PLAYS OF DICKENS, BROWNING, COLLINS AND TENNYSON Victorian Writers and the Stage by...
by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
The two main themes for this issue of the Newsletter are the newly discovered works by Collins in All the Year Round and how it has now become possible to download from the internet even really obscure books and articles by or about Wilkie. NEW COLLINS WORKS IN ALL...
by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
P. D. JAMES – A LAST FAREWELL Our late Patron, P. D. James died at the end of November aged 94. A memorial ‘Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Baroness James of Holland Park’ was held on Wednesday 29 April 2015 at the Temple Church. ...
by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
BARONESS JAMES OF HOLLAND PARK (P. D. JAMES) Members will no doubt have heard the sad news of the passing of Baroness James of Holland Park at the end of November at the age of 94. Better known as crime writer extraordinaire, P. D. James and creator of detective...
by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
ANNIVERSARY OF WILKIE’S DEATH AND FUNERAL The 125th anniversary of Wilkie’s death is on 23 September and he was buried four days later on Friday 27th September 1889 in Kensal Green Cemetery in west London. The Wilkie Collins Society will be holding a short event to...
