Wilkie Collins : a literary life / Graham Law and Andrew Maunder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Law, Graham.

Contributor:

Maunder, Andrew.

Series:

Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Literary lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Collins, Wilkie.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 214 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This volume in the Literary Lives series focuses on the career of the popular Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins (1824-89) and provides a new account of his professional life in the literary world of nineteenth-century Britain. It draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors, taking in Collins's notoriously complicated private life and his friendship with Charles Dickens, as well as his work as journalist, reviewer, and playwright. New insights are given into the international dimensions of Collins's career. There is full discussion of Collins's best-known novels, including The Woman in White, The Moonstone, and Armadale, but attention is also given to lesser-known works and to Collins's plays, which have long been neglected. The volume will appeal to all the students of Wilkie Collins and also to those interested in the literary world of Victorian Britain and the social and business networks which lay at its heart.

Contents:

1 Collins's Education and Reading 1

2 Collins's Circles 19

3 Collins and the Earlier Victorian Literary Marketplace 34

4 Collins as Journalist 47

5 Collins and London 61

6 Collins and Women 82

7 Collins and the Theatre 101

8 Collins as Missionary 124

9 Collins Overseas 139

10 Collins and the Later Victorian Literary Marketplace 158

11 Last Things 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index.

ISBN:

1403948968

9781403948960

OCLC:

214782139

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