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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wilkie_CollinsWilkie Collins - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Wilkie-CollinsWilkie Collins | Victorian era, detective fiction, novels

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   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.

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4. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-sensationThe Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian ...

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   Jan 29, 2024 · History | January 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 Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws...

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6. www.wilkie-collins.info › wilkie_collins_biographyWILKIE COLLINS - BIOGRAPHY AND LIFE

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   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.

7. www.goodreads.com › author › showWilkie Collins (Author of The Woman in White) - Goodreads

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   • Death Date: September 23, 1889

   • Birth Date: January 8, 1824

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   Jan 3, 2023 · Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism, however, has...

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   Who was Wilkie Collins?

   • Wilkie Collins (born Jan. 8, 1824, London, Eng.—died Sept. 23, 1889, London) 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.

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   When did Wilkie Collins die?

   • When the English writer Wilkie Collins died in 1889 at age 65, the Athenaeum published only a lukewarm tribute:

   The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women

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   Who was William Collins?

   • Collins was born at 11 New Cavendish Street, London, the son of William Collins, a well-known Royal Academician landscape painter, and his wife, Harriet Geddes. Named after his father, he soon became known by his middle name, which honoured his godfather, the painter David Wilkie. The family moved to Pond Street, Hampstead, in 1826.

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   How did Dickens and Wilkie become friends?

   • A firm friendship developed between the two writers which lasted until Dickens's death in 1870. They frequently travelled together on the Continent to France and Italy and Wilkie became a frequent visitor to Dickens's homes at Tavistock House and Gad's Hill where he was encouraged to fulfil his theatrical ambitions.

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10. www.cbc.ca › radio › ideasWilkie Collins: A true detective of the human mind | CBC Radio

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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...