by wilkieco | May 16, 2014 | Articles
An unsigned review of Wilkie Collins’s Hide and Seek (1854) describes this novel as one which “borders on romance without sacrificing probability” (Page 59). Another contemporary reviewer of Poor Miss Finch (1872) believed that this novel created the impression...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
An image entitled “Husband of Popular Author” from a 1904 Life magazine, which Brenda Weber includes in her new book (Fig. C.1), unpacks the tensions in the role of the famous woman writer. Echoing Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the woman’s...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
Before the critical method of ‘thing-theory’ surfaced in nineteenth-century studies, the presence and circulation of objects often motivated discussions of Marxism, cultural materialism, and an itemizing tendency associated with later-Victorian realism. Editor...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
In the last years there has been an increasing interest in investigating the relationship between the Victorian editorial market and the spread of the sensation novel. From Margaret Beethan’s A Magazine of her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine,...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
Over the years the Wilkie Collins Society has performed a valuable service for Collins enthusiasts and scholars by reprinting work that has either never been published, or that has remained unpublished since the nineteenth century. This, the first publication of The...
