by wilkieco | Aug 22, 2014 | News
THE WILKIE COLLINS JOURNAL As mentioned in previous Newsletters, the former Wilkie Collins Society Journal has now become an online publication as The Wilkie Collins Journal. We are delighted to report that the first issue is now available at...
by wilkieco | Aug 22, 2014 | News
COLLINS SPORT AND EXERCISE With the Olympics and a summer of sport still in our minds, Andrew Gasson has put together a selection of Wilkie’s thoughts on exercise and sports. These are taken from both his fiction and his letters, with thanks to WCS members who made...
by wilkieco | Aug 22, 2014 | News
PETER ACKROYD’S WILKIE COLLINS I have been critical of Peter Ackroyd in the past – his Dickens is magisterial but annoyingly lacking in footnotes. But I warmed to this short biography of Wilkie from the first page where he begins with a charming description of...
by wilkieco | Aug 22, 2014 | News
SUBSCRIPTION FOR 2012 Reluctantly we have decided that the continuing rise in postage costs necessitates an increase in the annual subscription for 2012. It will be £12 for the UK and Europe and £21 for the rest of the world. The increase is still well below the rise...
by wilkieco | Aug 22, 2014 | News
THE WILKIE COLLINS JOURNAL ON-LINE We are very pleased to announce that a new series of The Wilkie Collins Society Journal will be commencing in 2012. Society member Andrew Mangham (University of Reading, UK) will be taking over from Graham Law and Lillian Nayder as...
