| 单词 | Wilkie Collins |
| 例句 | One letter from 1857 describes getting lost on a walking tour with fellow-novelist Wilkie Collins, who sprained his ankle after the route “necessitated amazing gymnastics”. Lost portrait and unpublished letters of Charles Dickens to go on display 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z For those interested in the real-life inspiration behind Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins, this is an invaluable work of anecdotal and cultural history. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z The leading characters in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White show that the greatest thrillers are written half with sharp, shining intelligence and half with murky, moonlit subconscious. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z And an adaptation of a Wilkie Collins novel debuts on PBS. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ and ‘The Woman in White’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Tales of monsters and supernatural doings — by Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker, to name a better-known few — sat on bookshelves alongside volumes by Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Dickens met the 17-year-old in January 1858; she was to take over a small part in his sensational production of The Frozen Deep, the Arctic melodrama Wilkie Collins had written for him. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z By Wilkie Collins, read by Simon Prebble and Josephine Bailey The dual narrators of Wilkie Collins's definitive detective novel bring obvious enjoyment and enthusiasm to the plot. Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z James’s “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” and the plot complexities — and sardonic humor — of Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White.” Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z If much of Inconvenient People reads like a mood book through which Wilkie Collins might have flipped if stuck for inspiration, there are moments of high farce too. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z Rosanna is a maidservant who falls in love with Wilkie Collins's hero, Franklin Blake. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z It was pioneered in the 19th century by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone, a crime mystery in which different characters spoke in turn as if giving evidence in a trial. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z It’s a heady stew of gothic revenge tale and colonial critique that draws on everything from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to H Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z This haunting period thriller is the latest adaptation of Wilkie Collins' 1859 novel, widely considered one of the first pieces of mystery fiction published. Smart Watch: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix, “The Woman in White” and more 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z “It does get a bit breathless but that was very much a homage to the novels of sensation: to Wilkie Collins or Mary Elizabeth Braddon.” Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1860 the murder of a three-year-old boy at his home in Wiltshire had created a national frenzy of suspicion and anxiety, an obsessive curiosity that Wilkie Collins dubbed "detective fever". Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z Because by marrying fact and fiction McKay is doing not only what Summerscale encourages, he's also following in the not undistinguished footsteps of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z He played a shoe salesman on “The Corner” and the drug supplier Wilkie Collins on the NBC drama “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Robert F. Chew, Actor on ‘The Wire,’ Dies at 52 2013-01-19T04:32:48Z The novelist Wilkie Collins is also seen here as a collaborator with Dickens on the play “The Frozen Deep,” which Queen Victoria invited Dickens and his family troupe to perform at Buckingham Palace. Exhibition Review: Morgan Library?s ?Charles Dickens at 200? - Review 2011-09-22T21:48:27Z Young Conan Doyle was riveted by the new detective writings of Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Detecting the origins of Sherlock Holmes 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z What contemporary mystery writer hasn’t been strongly influenced, at least indirectly, by Wilkie Collins and James M. Cain? ‘Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen’ review: A long-awaited reassessment 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Wilkie Collins liberated the mystery story from drafty castles and clanking chains. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Last year, he published a scintillating volume on the father of the mystery novel, Wilkie Collins. Alfred Hitchcock: ‘A superb fantasist of fear’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But mostly I like those characters who hover awkwardly on the periphery of the plot, like Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s “The Moonstone,” someone unimportant, who in the end helps solve the mystery. Michael Ondaatje: By the Book 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z In terms of mystery novels, you can’t go too much further back than Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White,” published in the mid-19th century. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ and ‘The Woman in White’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Forster’s “Howards End,” Jane Austen’s “Sanditon,” Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White” and Frank Tallis’s “Vienna Blood,” a detective series set in the early Freudian era and based on novels by an English psychologist. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Fingersmith, her version of a Victorian sensation novel, has a plot twist that is all the more stunning if you think you have been cleverly recognising the plot of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z Morbid is dashing off to Paris every other week to gape at the corpses on public display at the city morgue, which is what Charles Dickens and his friend Wilkie Collins did for fun. Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Dickens himself agreed, writing to his friend Wilkie Collins that young Saville must have come on his father "intriguing with the nursemaid". Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z Count Fosco in “The Woman in White,” by Wilkie Collins, is a clever villain; evil but likable. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z If that's not enough, according to the estate agents it was also visited by another Victorian literary giant, Wilkie Collins. Writers' boltholes on the market 2011-08-03T18:31:24Z Donovan, a self-proclaimed Anglophile, wrote his undergraduate honors thesis on Wilkie Collins, a 19th century author whom some consider to be the inventor of the detective novel. Two podcasters set out to read every Agatha Christie book. It became much more than that 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Crime fiction was all the rage in Europe: Dostoevsky’s new novel would share page space with Wilkie Collins’s similarly unsettling “Armadale.” Review | Inspired by real-life murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Victorian thriller writer Wilkie Collins knew all about how to craft epic and taut yet unhurried potboilers to warm up a long winter’s night. Brace yourself for cold winter nights with these 6 epic classics, retold in audiobooks 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The letters touch on his marriage, relationships, his reception in America and the time he got stuck up a mountain with Wilkie Collins. Charles Dickens 'treasure trove' goes to London museum 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z I recently reread Wilkie Collins’ “The Moonstone,” a solid week’s worth of subway rides. Reading Nook: For Rivka Galchen, subways are for reading 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Secrets are revealed in the conclusion of the five-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ 19th century mystery novel “The Woman in White.” TV This Week, Nov. 18-24: ‘MST3K,’ Thanksgiving specials and more 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Sunday brings Wilkie Collins' 1859 "The Woman in White" in the sort of classic literary adaptation that still has no ongoing American counterpart. Reviews: With love, sex and mystery from the U.K., 'Wanderlust,' 'Bodyguard' and 'The Woman in White' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z An unsuspecting art teacher has a fateful encounter with “The Woman in White” in this new mystery drama based on Wilkie Collins’ 19th-century novel. TV This Week, Oct. 21-27: 'The Simpsons,' 'Legacies' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Who is the woman of the title? Atwood? Shakespeare? Harry Potter? Top 10 false identities in fiction 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z So for those snobs who think mystery-reading is a lightweight pastime, think about Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe. Intellectuals like reading mysteries, thank you very much 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In his telling, “A Study in Scarlet” features a “vanished daddy”; author Wilkie Collins is the “prime pal” of Charles Dickens; and Bartholomew Sholto of “The Sign of the Four” becomes “Bartie.” A character who endures 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Famously, Dickens and Wilkie Collins would write parts of each other’s books. This Surprising Literary Trend Is Experiencing a Golden Age 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z I need hardly say, perhaps, that I rank Charles Reade high above Wilkie Collins. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Wilkie Collins, prince among the plotters, was accustomed to compose at white heat. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z Even in Wilkie Collins's time the people were noticeable for their courtesy. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Chatham’s residence was at North End, a picturesque quarter yet preserving characteristics of a rural village; here also Wilkie Collins was born. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Wilkie Collins especially recommends it as finely picturing genius and nobility of character. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z His method of workmanship is, I believe, something like that of Mr. Wilkie Collins, but of course the object is totally different. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z I have quoted already from Wilkie Collins as to the growth of plot from its embryo stages, but that need not deter us from taking an imaginary example. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z As Wilkie Collins expresses it, the Land's End is "the sort of place where the last man in England would be most likely to be found waiting for death at the end of the world!" Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z She says the only books she cares for are Wilkie Collins 'Woman in White,' and the 'Dead Secret,' so she'll have a lively time of it with the Evidences. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z True it is that Dickens and Wilkie Collins were joint authors of 'No Thorofare,' and that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner were joint authors of the 'Gilded Age.' A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Thither Dickens followed him, for once, in his Four Stories, not otherwise noteworthy, and written in a manner already difficult to discriminate from that of Mr. Wilkie Collins. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z But he made a special exception in the case of Wilkie Collins, with whom he collaborated on more than one occasion, as in the story No Thoroughfare. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z So, but in a totally different way, did Wilkie Collins. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "She has worked up a cause celèbre with a fertility of device and ingenuity of treatment hardly second to Wilkie Collins or Edgar Allan Poe." Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z Wilkie Collins she regards as her literary godfather. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Macready and Mr. Wilkie Collins were in turn the companions of many “theatrical and lounging” evenings. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z If Wilkie Collins made an admirable heroine of Magdalen Vanstone disguising herself variously, why should not Dickens succeed in making a character as wonderful and more attractive of Helena Landless? The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z Wilkie Collins came into my life even earlier than this. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z The novels of Trollope, Reade and Wilkie Collins are, generally speaking, a secondary product of the literary forces which produced the great fiction of the ’fifties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It is true that some few novelists, such as Wilkie Collins, write novels that depend on plot for their interest, but those typical novels which stand at the head of the list do not. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z At Boulogne, too, Mr. Wilkie Collins was a welcome summer visitor. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z In Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone the Indians did their part, and then vanished from the scene. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z Wilkie Collins once wrote a play, called The Lighthouse, for some private theatricals in which Dickens acted. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z We took it in turns to read aloud—Wilkie Collins was coming out in a weekly journal—most exciting! The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Yes, I dared to hope—presumptuous wretch that I was; but by that which casts the shadow of Wilkie Collins, I will name “No Name.” Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z The two other writers were Carlyle, and, as I have frequently noted in previous chapters, the friend and fellow-labourer of Dickens’s later manhood, Mr. Wilkie Collins. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z ‘The construction is most minute and most wonderful,’ wrote Anthony Trollope of Wilkie Collins. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z “The Woman in White,” by the Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, is at the top of his must-read list. | Connecticut: Man of Mysterious Bookshop Solves His Own Case 2010-06-25T23:01:00Z In a letter to Wilkie Collins, 6th June 1856, Dickens relates that he began “to write fugitive pieces for the old Monthly Magazine” when he was in “the gallery” for the Mirror of Parliament. Springtime and Other Essays Wilkie Collins has written a novel about a man who steals a diamond in his sleep, but I rather think my idea is a step ahead of Mr. Wilkie Collins. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Nor was this feeling, which he frankly confessed to Mr. Wilkie Collins, altogether unwarranted. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z I believe that Dickens in this Datchery assumption was mainly influenced by Wilkie Collins. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z It is surprising to think of the writer of "Japan, an Interpretation," having been fascinated by Wilkie Collins's "Armadale." Lafcadio Hearn On 20th May 1855, he wrote to Stanfield about the scenery of a play by Wilkie Collins which was in preparation. Springtime and Other Essays Wilkie Collins would not need to be ashamed of the construction of this story. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life He told Mr. Wilkie Collins that “underlining was not his nature;” and in truth he had no need to emphasise his expressions, or to bid the reader “go back upon their meaning.” Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z We have also, as I hope to show, some help given indirectly from Dickens’s own biography, and in particular from a book by Wilkie Collins. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z He had given up his heavy political reading, and begun a course of Wilkie Collins. Shadows of Flames A Novel Walker, A.R.A., made to advertise the dramatic version of Wilkie Collins’s Woman in White, is now at the Tate Gallery; and cartoons by Ford Madox Brown are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Wilkie Collins, in his best period, never invented a more ingeniously constructed plot, nor held the reader in such suspense until the final deno�ment. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Thackeray, Dickens, choose your author and your book, and float off into the life of imagination, which cheats the life of the actual of so much of its pain. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 An edition of the same work was published in 1901 with the astoundingly false announcement on the title-page that the book is by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens the Younger. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z After Wilkie Collins he took up the French detective novels—then shifted to "Ouida." Shadows of Flames A Novel His constitution being naturally frail, he went in 1853, with Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to Italy for a short trip, and in 1863 he visited Algeria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Wilkie Collins, in dramatizing some of his novels, produced somewhat crude anticipations of the modern “problem play.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" That evening she dined at Forster's, where she met Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series In No Thoroughfare, a story written by Wilkie Collins and Dickens in 1867 as a Christmas Number, we have the story of a man supposed dead coming to life again. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z Wilkie Collins' book, "Heart and Science," so mercilessly excited him that he says he continued writing week after week without a day's interval or rest. Methods of Authors He appeared among Dickens’s company of amateurs in 1852 in Lord Lytton’s comedy Not so Bad as we Seem, and afterwards in Wilkie Collins’s Frozen Deep, playing the humorous part of Job Want. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" And during the present season as the star Zira in Wilkie Collins's revamped "New Magdalen" she kept people coming to the Princess from September until the middle of January. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 His biography by his son, W. Wilkie Collins, the novelist, appeared in 1848. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Wilkie Collins was the chief of these, but there were many others. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Wilkie Collins, in his best period, never invented a more ingeniously constructed plot, nor held the reader in such suspense until the final denouement. Hand and Ring Some writers, such as Wilkie Collins, may have commanded a larger sale. Studies in Contemporary Biography Such is the method adopted by Wilkie Collins in The Woman in White, for example. Memoirs of Life and Literature Dickens bought the property in, and started afresh under the title of All the Year Round, among whose contributors were Edmund Yates, Percy Fitzgerald, Charles Lever, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, and Lord Lytton. Dickens' London Wilkie Collins is accredited with having said that the secret of holding the attention of one’s readers lay in the ability to do three things: “Make ’em laugh; make ’em weep; make ’em wait.” A Manual of the Art of Fiction Wilkie Collins would not be ashamed of the construction of this story. Hand and Ring Highly gruesome, but not less fascinating, are the hands of the late Wilkie Collins, with which we will conclude this month's section of our subject. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The girls are always laughing at me because I read George Eliot, and Dickens, and Thackeray, and Charles Reade, and Wilkie Collins, and those back numbers. Imaginary Interviews Far more so, doubtless, than most of his contemporaries; certainly before George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Bulwer, or even Carlyle or Thackeray. Dickens' London She came to the Murray Hill Theater with a version of Wilkie Collins’ much-abused “New Magdalen,” which was called “Her Second Life.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 "She has worked up a cause celèbre with a fertility of device and ingenuity of treatment hardly second to Wilkie Collins or Edgar Allen Poe." Hand and Ring Gray eyes have ever been the ideal of all great novelists; among the number Charlotte Bront�, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade. Cupology How to Be Entertaining Mafoota A Romance of Jamaica "The plot has a resemblance to that of Wilkie Collins' 'The New Magdalen,' but the heroine is a Puritan of the strictest type; the subject matter is like 'The Helpmate.'" Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty The friendship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins began when Dickens was nearly forty, and Collins about twenty-five years of age. The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers "Into the dignified atmosphere of a northerly academic town Miss Ethel Heddle introduces a coil of events worthy of Wilkie Collins." Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Wilkie Collins will be at work to follow you. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 He writes of it, in the first letter of the year, to Mr. Wilkie Collins, who was passing the winter in Italy. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 In February he made a short trip to Paris with Mr. Wilkie Collins, with an intention of going on to Bordeaux, which was abandoned on account of bad weather. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 To this Dickens contributed, with Mr. Wilkie Collins, in nearly equal portions. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Here, at last was a murder worthy of Wilkie Collins's or Gaboriau's handling; such a crime as one expected to read of in a novel, but never could hope to hear of in real life. The Opal Serpent I did not think much of Wilkie Collins until I read "The Moonstone." Confessions of a Book-Lover Mr. Wilkie Collins was at this time engaged on his novel of "No Name," which appeared in "All the Year Round," and was threatened with a very serious breakdown in health. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 We have also his first letter to Mr. Wilkie Collins, with whom he became most intimately associated in literary work. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 Mr. Wilkie Collins contributed to it his Woman in White, No Name, and Moonstone, the first of which had a pre-eminent success; Mr. Reade his Hard Cash; and Lord Lytton his Strange Story. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Who knows but that he had been reading Wilkie Collins' famous novel! The Lost Girl "No," I answered quickly and indiscreetly, "I am reading 'The New Magdalen,' by Wilkie Collins." Confessions of a Book-Lover The Christmas number for this year, "No Thoroughfare," was written by Charles Dickens and Mr. Wilkie Collins. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 All of them admitted Bulwer-Lytton and Wilkie Collins, all but two Oliver Optic's books, and all but six Augusta Evans Wilson's. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Frank Stone went over with his family to a house taken for him on the St. Omer road by Dickens, who was joined in the chateau by Mr. and Mrs. Leech and Mr. Wilkie Collins. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete And who does not remember Gabriel Betteridge, the simple-hearted old steward in Wilkie Collins's "Moonstone," who finds for every occurrence a text to counsel or console in his favorite "Robinson Crusoe"? The Booklover and His Books The power of the plot in English fiction found its culmination in the work of Wilkie Collins, whose Moonstone is probably the finest piece of mere literary cabinet-making in the world. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Wilkie Collins has just come in, and sends best regard. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 For the rest, Wilkie Collins is these two elements: the mechanical and the mystical; both very good of their kind. The Victorian Age in Literature In February of 1855 he was for a fortnight in Paris with Mr. Wilkie Collins; not taking up his more prolonged residence there until the winter. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Defoe, Daniel, tribute of Wilkie Collins to "Robinson Crusoe," 110. The Booklover and His Books Dickens sent the following sketch of his early career to Wilkie Collins. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists The Christmas number, this time, was written jointly by himself and Mr. Wilkie Collins. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Wilkie Collins may be said to be in this way a lesser Dickens and Anthony Trollope a lesser Thackeray. The Victorian Age in Literature Mr. Wilkie Collins was again his companion in the summer weeks, and the presence of Jerrold for the greater part of the time added much to his enjoyment. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Whenever anybody counterblasts to-day against tobacco, I feel as did my old friend Wilkie Collins, when somebody told him that to smoke was a wrong thing. The Social History of Smoking "She has worked up a cause célèbre with a fertility of device and ingenuity of treatment hardly second to Wilkie Collins or Edgar Allan Poe." The Chief Legatee The frequently-quoted formula of Wilkie Collins, "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait," simply sums up the proper procedure when you set out to win the interest and sympathy of the spectators. Writing the Photoplay Here, too, Mr. Wilkie Collins wove together his ingenious threads of plot and mystery in "The Moonstone," "The Woman in White," and "No Name." Life of Charles Dickens Returning to England through the Kentish country with Mr. Wilkie Collins in July, other advantages occurred to him. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Consider how juiceless was the documentary method of Wilkie Collins, how mechanical and how arid, how futilely complicated, how prolonged, and how fatiguing. Inquiries and Opinions Writing to Wilkie Collins in reference to his proposed sea voyage, he quotes Campbell's lines from ‘Ye Mariners of England’: As I sweep Through the deep When the stormy winds do blow. Charles Dickens and Music Some one in a story of Mr. Wilkie Collins’s asks the fatal question at a croquet party. Lost Leaders But then I see no particular reason to believe that Dickens had wished to baffle us, or specially to rival Edgar Allan Poe or Mr. Wilkie Collins in the construction of criminal puzzles. Life of Charles Dickens These "mutual admiration" families, as Wilkie Collins so aptly terms them, are families to be shunned. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Wilkie Collins had more invention than Dickens, as Dickens had more than Thackeray. Inquiries and Opinions Wilkie Collins' receipt for fiction writing well applies to public speech: "Make 'em laugh; make 'em weep; make 'em wait." The Art of Public Speaking Wilkie Collins' greatest power lies in the construction of his plot; the "Moonstone" and the "Woman in White," are among the most absorbing narratives in the whole range of fiction. A History of English Prose Fiction Wilkie Collins and George Eliot make heaps of money with their pens. Bessie's Fortune A Novel Henry Kingsley, George Alfred Lawrence, Wilkie Collins, and others began their careers at this time. The English Novel Wilkie Collins' story, A Terribly Strange Bed, which describes the stratagem of a gang of cardsharpers for getting rid of those who happen to win money from them, is in the same vein. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance When Mr. Wilkie Collins wrote of the Unknown Public it is clear he was still hopeful of them. Some Private Views The play was as popular as the Wilkie Collins' story from which it had been taken, and therefore the house was crowded. Stage Confidences The doughty old novel readers who knew their Scott and Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade, their Dumas and their Cooper, were the very people whose hearts were warmed by Stevenson. Emerson and Other Essays A very curious and characteristic member of this group, Wilkie Collins, has not yet been mentioned except by glances. The English Novel He, like Wilkie Collins, made a cult of terror. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance This class of literature was of considerable dimensions even in the days when Mr. Wilkie Collins first called attention to it; but the luxuriance of its growth has since become tropical. Some Private Views Even in so confirmed a romance-maker as Wilkie Collins, to whom plot was everything and whose cunning of hand in this is notorious, there is a concession to the new ideal of Truth. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Wilkie Collins begs me to report that he declines pale horse, and all other horse exercise—and all exercise, except eating, drinking, smoking, and sleeping—in the dog days. Yesterdays with Authors He could have been appropriately selected as the hero of a certain popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Wilkie Collins weaves elaborate plots of hair-raising events. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Compare the "enormity of pleasure" which De Quincey says Wordsworth derived from the simplest natural object with the serious protest of Wilkie Collins against the affectation of caring about Nature at all. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 When I had the honour of being asked to preside last year, I was prevented by indisposition, and I besought my friend, Mr. Wilkie Collins, to reign in my stead. Speeches: Literary and Social "No name," said the humorist; "then the author of his being must be Wilkie Collins." Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire Brought up in her youth on Miss Braddon, Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Henry Wood, Miss Penkridge had become a confirmed slave to the sensational. The Middle of Things Wilkie Collins' fascinating serial, The Moonstone, was published in All the Year Round in 1868; The Woman in White had appeared six years earlier in Blackwood. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance "I haven't read Alexander Dumas and Wilkie Collins for nothing," he muttered. Lady Audley's Secret The plot of the novel, every scene, every situation, from beginning to end, is the work of Wilkie Collins. Blind Love Mr. Wilkie Collins smokes after work, and Mr. James Payn smokes all the time he is working. Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life F—— congratulated myself in private on my exceptional good luck, and attributed it partly to my having followed the Upholsterer's advice in that book of Mr. Wilkie Collins. Station Amusements in New Zealand Wilkie Collins' short story, The Yellow Mask, included in the series called After Dark, is another experiment in the same kind. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance My friend Wilkie Collins is generally supposed to be sensational. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope IN the month of August 1889, and in the middle of the seaside holiday, a message came to me from Wilkie Collins, then, though we hoped otherwise, on his death-bed. Blind Love It is true that Mr. Wilkie Collins has described one gentleman who had not only been deprived of all his limbs, but was further afflicted by the insupportable name of Miserrimus Dexter. Through the Magic Door In one of Wilkie Collins' books an upholsterer is represented as saying that if you want to domesticate a woman, you should surround her with bird's-eye maple and chintz. Station Amusements in New Zealand He is the creature of instinct; and instinct—according to my late relative, Wilkie Collins—never errs, though reason often does so, as we know to our cost. Such Is Life All these things, and many more, Wilkie Collins would have arranged before with infinite labour, preparing things present so that they should fit in with things to come. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope When he has time for novels he reads Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade chiefly the latter—and knows whole pages of "Very Hard Cash" by heart. The Day's Work - Volume 1 "The Woman in White," by Wilkie Collins, was published about 1860, I think, in weekly installments, and certainly they were devoured with insatiable appetite by many thousands of readers. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's financial accounts. A Fair Penitent We can hold in our minds every thread of Mr. Wilkie Collins’ web, or of M. Fortuné du Boisgobey’s, or of M. Gaboriau’s—all great weavers of intrigues. Essays in Little The reader never feels with him, as he does with Wilkie Collins, that it is all plot, or, as with George Eliot, that there is no plot. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Little Brown used to read Harrison Ainsworth, Wilkie Collins, and other writers whom we, had we assayed them, would have dismissed as 'deep.' Seven Men |
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