by wilkieco | Jan 25, 2017 | News
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL We are grateful to several members who have anticipated the Newsletter and membership renewal notice and already paid. The subscription notice accompanies this Newsletter for those who have not paid. With the ever increasing cost of postage, we...
by wilkieco | Apr 1, 2016 | Articles
One of the most famous of the 1860s sensation novels, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1861), can be read as resisting – at least in part – the very obsession with sensational crime and invocations of nervous shock by which the genre is defined. The early pages of the...
by wilkieco | Apr 1, 2016 | Articles
Ellen Wood’s George Canterbury’s Will (1870) and Pen Oliver’s ((Pseudonym of Sir Henry Thompson, a notable member of the Royal College of Surgeons.)) All But: A Chronicle of Laxenford Life (1886) form part of a small trend of sensation works in the late Victorian...
by wilkieco | Apr 1, 2016 | Reviews
Like most Collins scholars I first came across Jenny Bourne Taylor’s In the Secret Theatre of Home as an undergraduate. By then (the late 1990s), the book had already gone out of print and was hard to come by. Thankfully, through this new-fangled thing called the...
by wilkieco | Apr 1, 2016 | Reviews
Wilkie Collins’s fiction has featured prominently in the burgeoning field of Victorian Disability Studies, and has frequently been singled out for praise by scholars impressed (or relieved) by the sheer range of disabled characters he created and the unconventional,...
