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    William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery...
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    This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins. Iolani, or Tahiti as it was. A Romance (written 1844, published 1999) Antonina (1850) Basil (1852)...
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  • (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) "A House to Let" (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth...
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  • seen to have emerged as a definable genre in the wake of three novels: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (1859–60); Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne (1861);...
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    The Woman in White (novel) (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
    The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1860 and set from 1849 to 1850. It started its publication on 26 November 1859...
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    original on 22 February 2014. Collins, Wilkie. "To Daniel S. Ford". In Paul Lewis (ed.). The Wilkie Collins Pages: Wilkie's Letters. Archived from the original...
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    Sergeant Richard Cuff is a fictional character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone. He represents one of the earliest portrayals of a police detective...
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  • weapons. One of the earliest references comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: "I begin to...
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  • television adaptation of the 1860 sensation novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. The series began airing on BBC One on 22 April 2018, and stars Jessie...
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    The Moonstone (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
    The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many...
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    No Thoroughfare (category Novels by Wilkie Collins)
    novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage...
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    North Genre, Politics and Place. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2020. p. 247. "Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone". British Library. Retrieved 13 April 2023. "Robert Louis...
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    by Wilkie Collins, the protagonist meets two women, Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie, who strongly resemble one another. (See also Wilkie Collins' The...
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    George Boole, lived at No.68 in 1865 following the death of her husband. Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, lived at No. 12 (later...
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  • The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. It details Amelius Goldenheart, an American Christian Socialist's, sojourn to England after exile...
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    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, written in collaboration with Wilkie Collins after their walking tour of Cumberland during September 1857 and published...
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  • a television drama series based on the 1868 novel The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It was broadcast in two parts in 1996. Greg Wise as Franklin Blake...
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    in The Moonstone (1868), a 19th-century British epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins, generally considered to be the first full length detective novel in...
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    Rachel Verinder is a character in Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone. Despite being the heroine, the story is never related from her viewpoint, as...
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  • by Wilkie Collins. Mangham, Andrew (2008). "Mental States: Political and Psychological Conflict in Antonina". In Andrew Mangham (ed.). Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary...
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    played the lead role of Walter Hartright in the BBC adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White. Hardy played Queen drummer Roger Taylor in...
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    laudanum-addicted character also appeared in Wilkie Collins' novel Armadale (1864–1866). Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone (1868) features laudanum...
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  • Basil (film) (category Films based on works by Wilkie Collins)
    Derek Jacobi. It was based on the 1852 novel Basil by Victorian author Wilkie Collins. The adaptation is by Bharadwaj. Basil recalls his younger days when...
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    During this period, he worked closely with the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins. In 1856, his income from writing allowed him to buy Gads Hill Place...
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    thesis, Margaret Bourke-White considered Wilkie Collins' Man and Wife (1870) "a satire on muscle worship," as Collins criticized the excessive "glorification...
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  • Handbagged. Lucy Robinson's roles as a voice actor include Lydia Gwilt in Wilkie Collins' Armadale. Her father was the journalist and presenter Robert Robinson...
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    Brotherhood. Collins was born in Hampstead, north London, the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins...
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    mother and sister Maria, in three performances of The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins in Manchester in August 1857. It was not unusual for professional actresses...
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    Hall. p. 84. OCLC 258782. "The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters | The Wilkie Collins Journal". acc.wilkiecollinssociety.org. 2011....
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    Sharpe, and the historic Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington. Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone includes a prologue that takes place during the Battle...
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