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Wilkie Collins Bibliography
This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins. Novels *''Iolani, or Tahiti as it was. A Romance'' (written 1844; published 1999) *'' Antonina'' (1850) *''Basil'' (1852) *''Hide and Seek'' (1854) *''The Dead Secret'' (1856) *''A Rogue's Life'' (1856/1879) *'' The Woman in White'' (1860) *'' No Name'' (1862) *'' Armadale'' (1866) *''The Moonstone'' (1868) *'' Man and Wife'' (1870) *'' Poor Miss Finch'' (1872), dedicated to Frances Minto Elliot *''The New Magdalen'' (1873) *'' The Law and the Lady'' (1875) *''The Two Destinies'' (1876) *''The Fallen Leaves'' (1879) *''Jezebel's Daughter'' (serialisation 1879–80; 3 vols 1880), novelisation of Collins' play ''The Red Vial'' (1858) *'' The Black Robe'' (1881) *''Heart and Science'' (1883) *''I Say No'' (1884) *''The Evil Genius'' (1886) *''The Guilty River'' (1886) *''The Legacy of Cain'' (1889) *'' Blind Love'' (1890 – unfinished, completed by Walter Besant) Short fiction *''Mr Wray's Cash Box. Or, the Mask and the Myst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millais Wilkie Collins
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A Terribly Strange Bed
"A Terribly Strange Bed" is a short story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in ''Household Words'', a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. It was written near the beginning of his writing career, his first published book having appeared in 1848. Collins met Dickens in 1851, and this story was the first contribution by Collins to Dickens's magazine ''Household Words''. After several more pieces for the magazine, he became a paid member of staff in 1856.Wilkie Collins - A Short Biography Wilkie Collins Information Pages. Accessed 8 Oct 2014. The Victorian Web. Accessed 8 Oct 2014. In the story, an English visitor to a gambling-house in Paris stays overnight in the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In White (1997 TV Series)
''The Woman in White'' (1997) is a BBC television adaptation based on the 1859 novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. Unlike the epistolary style of the novel, the 2-hour dramatisation uses Marian as the main character. She bookends the film with her narration. Plot Marian Fairlie (Tara Fitzgerald) and Laura Fairlie (Justine Waddell) are half-sisters (same father but different mothers). Laura's mother died, leaving Laura an inheritance which she will receive when she comes of age. They both live in Limmeridge with their uncle, Mr. Fairlie (Ian Richardson), who hires a new tutor, Walter Hartright (Andrew Lincoln). Marian tells Hartright that she and Laura are very close, agree in everything and refuse to be taught separately. On the night Mr. Hartright arrives at Limmeridge, he bumps into a woman in white. She speaks cryptically, and inquires if he is to stay with the Fairlies. When a carriage arrives, she runs off. Mr. Gilmore, the Fairlies' attorney, tells him that the wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Thoroughfare
''No Thoroughfare'' is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Background In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled ''No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts''. The two had previously collaborated on the play ''The Frozen Deep''. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died in June 1870. The play opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 26 December 1867. file:No Thoroughfare by Dickens and Wilkie Collins.jpg, left, ''No Thoroughfare'' by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Left to right: Joey Ladle (Benjamin Webster), Sally Goldstraw (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), George Vendale (Henry G. Neville), Jules Obenreizer (Charles Fechter, Charles Albert Fechter), Marguerite (Carlotta Leclercq), Walter Wilding (John Billington (actor), John Billington), and Bintrey ( George G. Belmore). The novel ''No Thoroughfare'' was also first published in 1867, in the Christmas number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frozen Deep
''The Frozen Deep'' is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. Dickens's hand was so prominent—beside acting in the play for several performances, he added a preface, altered lines, and attended to most of the props and sets—that the principal edition of the play is entitled "Under the Management of Charles Dickens". John C. Eckel wrote: "As usual with a play which passed into rehearsal under Dickens' auspices it came out improved. This was the case with ''The Frozen Deep''. The changes were so numerous that the drama almost may be ascribed to Dickens". Dickens himself took the part of Richard Wardour and was stage-manager during its modest original staging in Dickens's home Tavistock House. The play, however, grew in influence through a series of outside performances, including one before Queen Victoria at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, and a three-performance run at the Manche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Zebedee?
''Who Killed Zebedee?'' is a short detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published under the alternate title "The Policeman & The Cook" in serial form in 1881. A young wife is convinced that, while sleepwalking, she has murdered her own husband, John Zebedee. Together, a young constable and the cook from the couple's final lodgings attempt to uncover the truth. Plot summary "Who Killed Zebedee?" opens with a direct address to the readers by an otherwise unnamed narrator. On his deathbed, our narrator, a Roman Catholic, feels compelled to make a confession to the readers about his involvement in an unsolved murder case back when he was still a young police constable in London. The recounting of the death of Zebedee opens with a distraught young woman, Priscilla Thurlby, the cook at the Zebedee's boarding house, rushing into the police station with a blood-curdling scream. Priscilla informs the skeptical assembly that, "A young woman has murdered her husband in the night!" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead Alive
''The Dead Alive'', also called ''John Jago's Ghost'', is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by the Northwestern University Press. Radio adaptation ''The Dead Alive'' was presented on ''Suspense'' March 9, 1953. The 30-minute adaptation starred Herbert Marshall Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni .... References External links * * 1874 British novels Crime novels Non-fiction crime books Novels by Wilkie Collins {{1870s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesba Stretton
Hesba Stretton was the pseudonym of Sarah Smith (27 July 1832 – 8 October 1911), an evangelical English author of religious books for children. These were highly popular. By the late 19th century ''Jessica's First Prayer'' had sold a million and a half copies – ten times more than ''Alice in Wonderland''. She concocted "Hesba Stretton" from the initials of herself and four surviving siblings, along with the name of a Shropshire village she visited, All Stretton, where her sister Anne owned a house, Caradoc Lodge. Early life Sarah Smith was the daughter of a bookseller, Benjamin Smith (1793–1878) of Wellington, Shropshire and his wife Anne Bakewell Smith (1798–1842), a noted Methodist. She and her elder sister attended the Old Hall, a school in the town, but were largely self-educated.Patricia Demers: Smith, Sarah... In: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: OUP, 2004; online e. October 2008)Retrieved 14 November 2010. Subscription required./ref> About 1867 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sala
George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala (November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the ''Illustrated London News'' as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for ''The Daily Telegraph''. He founded his own periodical, ''Sala's Journal'', and the Sydney Savage Club. The former was unsuccessful but the latter still continues. Life Sala was born on 24 November 1828 in London. His legal father Augustus John James Sala (1789–1829) being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres. His natural father and godfather was Captain Charles "Henry" Fairfield, an acquaintance of his mother, Henrietta Catharina Simon (1789–1860), an actress and teacher of singing. She was the daughter of Catherina Cells, a former slave, and Demerara planter D. P. Simon. His great-grandmother was the Caribbean entrepreneur, Dorothy Thomas. He was at school at Paris from 1839 but his family returned to England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunted House (story)
"The Haunted House" is a story series published in 1859 for the weekly periodical ''All the Year Round''. It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors.''The Haunted House'', Published in '' All the Year Round'' Extra Christmas Number 13 December 1859 "The Mortals in the House" (Charles Dickens) "The Ghost in the Clock Room" (Hesba Stretton) "The Ghost in the Double Room" (George Augustus Sala) "The Ghost in the Picture Room" (Adelaide Anne Procter) "The Ghost in the Cupboard Room" (Wilkie Collins) "The Ghost in Master B's Room" (Charles Dickens) "The Ghost in the Garden Room" (Elizabeth Gaskell) "The Ghost in the Corner Room" (Charles Dickens) Publication history The story appeared in the Extra Christmas Number on 13 December 1859. Dickens began a tradition of Christmas publications with ''A Christmas Carol'' in 1843 and his Christmas stories soon became a na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Anne Procter
Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals ''Household Words'' and '' All the Year Round'', and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism seem to have influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Few modern critics have rated her work, but it is still thought significant for what it reveals about how Victorian women expressed otherwise repressed feelings. Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Life Adelaide Anne Procter was born at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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