Publications

The Wilkie Collins Society has published more than 100 pamphlets, leaflets, and books over the last forty years. Our entire back catalogue from 1981 to 2023 is now available online. More recent publications will become available during 2024. Printed copies of some publications – especially recent ones – can be ordered. Email the Secretary paul@paullewis.co.uk if there are titles you want to buy.

Words of Wilkie Collins
Reprints of lesser-known works of Wilkie Collins both fiction and non-fiction and some newly-discovered writing. Each comes with an introduction.

Life of Wilkie Collins
Biographical accounts range from interviews with Wilkie Collins or recollections by contemporaries to modern studies of his life, family, and finances.

Analysis of his work
Analysis of Wilkie Collins’s writing and its reception – from literary criticism of his work to modern research into how he managed his writing and what he earned from it.

Bibliography
Details of where and when Wilkie Collins’s work was published from his earliest pieces to his latest.

Collected Letters
Newly discovered letters and amendments to ones already known are published every year or two in Addenda & Corrigenda. Fourteen of them are available to download free.

Newsletters
Newsletters have been issued two or three times a year by the Society for forty years. More than 90 newsletters from 1981 to 2023 are freely accessible. More will be added in 2024. They contain the latest news, fresh discoveries and analysis, and reviews of current books and exhibitions.

And do not forget the Journal
The academic peer-reviewed Wilkie Collins Journal with articles about Wilkie Collins, his work and times is now beginning its Fourth Series. The Third Series 2012-2022 is available free online. The older New Series and the Original Series are also available free online in PDF format. See the JOURNAL dropdown.