by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Wilkie Collins is one of the few ‘major Victorian creative personalities’ (to use the rather infelicitous phrasing of the editors of this collection), whose letters have hitherto remained uncollected and unpublished. Sadly, many of the letters which might...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Writing to Edward Pigott in July 1854, in a letter marked “Private,” Wilkie Collins offers his “deep sympathy” to his close friend and associate—not because Pigott has lost a family member but because the scandal surrounding Thornton Hunt’s adulterous relationship...