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- 1. (1824–89), English novelist, noted for his detective stories The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868); full name William Wilkie Collins.
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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 novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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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 novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Wilkie Collins was an English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction. The son of William Collins (1788–1847), the landscape painter, he developed a gift for inventing tales while still a schoolboy at a private boarding school. His first published.
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Jan 8, 2024 · Considered one of the first writers of mysteries, and the father of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins used the genres to investigate the rapidly changing world around him, and to upend...
William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years. Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel.
Apr 13, 2016 · Wilkie Collins, the sensationalist author and inventor of the detective novel, knew precisely how to "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait”. Jason Hall, Victorian literature expert and editor of a new edition of Jezebel's Daughter, chooses the five best books from Collins's extensive oeuvre – and considers the voracious appetites and ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889) has been called the grandfather of the English detective novel. He was a writer of the "sensational" school during the Victorian Period, and with bestselling novels and successful plays such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, and The Frozen Deep, Collins explored the effects of ...
Jan 29, 2024 · The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women. Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws regarding marital and...
