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• Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
  |title=Wilkie Collins ...lf a husband elsewhwere, but she left him two years later and went back to Collins afterwards. Short of stature and slightly deformed, his life was blighted
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• Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett
  |title=Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation |summary=A very full biography of Wilkie Collins, master of the Victorian 'sensation' novel and a man who was later remember
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• Cloudland by Joseph Olshan
  ...lt to tell who the criminal was. Based on an obscure and unfinished Wilkie Collins novel. ...er readers will have the same impulse thus rekindling popularity of Wilkie Collins and establishing Olson's expertise over the genre.
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• Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett
  |title=Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation |summary=A very full biography of Wilkie Collins, master of the Victorian 'sensation' novel and a man who was later remember
  5 KB (863 words) - 15:09, 9 April 2018
• Drood by Dan Simmons
  |summary= The lives of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, when a complex and deep saga of a most unusual charact It's 1865, and Wilkie Collins is writing down a text so bizarre, so full of the secret, creepy, unearthly
  6 KB (1,039 words) - 15:22, 2 October 2020
• Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
  |title=Wilkie Collins ...lf a husband elsewhwere, but she left him two years later and went back to Collins afterwards. Short of stature and slightly deformed, his life was blighted
  4 KB (738 words) - 15:08, 9 April 2018
• Category:Stephanie Elmas
  ...sensation writing which was very popular during the Victorian era, Wilkie Collins perhaps being the most famous author to have appeared from this genre. Elma
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• Pirates 'n' Pistols by Chris Mould
  ...a beginning excerpt from Stevenson's Treasure Island, and rewrite a Wilkie Collins short story to bring it into the pirate mythology. There's also a child-fr
  3 KB (543 words) - 13:40, 14 September 2020
• Devoured by D E Meredith
  ...of Victorian London so popular with readers of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The rich and powerful abuse and exploit those they consider beneath them.
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• Shadows of the Silver Screen by Christopher Edge
  ...those children – like me – who will one day discover that they love Wilkie Collins and H G Wells. But I can see it working equally well for kids who are less
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• The Asylum by John Harwood
  ...in the novel’s finale felt disappointingly conventional to me. It’s Wilkie Collins with a dash of Sarah Waters, a pastiche of pastiches that doesn’t add any
  5 KB (834 words) - 13:44, 11 August 2020
• Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find by John Batchelor
  ...e of another contemporary Victorian author, may we also recommend [[Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett]]
  5 KB (802 words) - 14:53, 9 April 2018
• Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino
  ...been stripped away, there's an eerie murder with a hint of a modern Wilkie Collins. That phase doesn't linger too long though as, page by page, further layer
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• Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
  ...e with a strong London connection. J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Charlie Chaplin are among those who have come under his scrutiny, and n
  5 KB (920 words) - 11:48, 18 August 2020
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
  ...e murder has a major impact upon contemporary novels, in particular Wilkie Collins' ''The Moonstone'', the founding fable of detective fiction, a story about
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• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  ...modern throughout, notably a touch of Charles Dickens, a splash of Wilkie Collins, a smidgeon of Robert Louis Stevenson, a dash of Salman Rushdie and a hint
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• Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
  ...hile amusing, these are less disturbing than the readers who sought Wilkie Collins' source for Marian in ''The Woman in White'' as a kind of literary dating a
  6 KB (1,100 words) - 10:54, 24 March 2018
• Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books by H R F Keating
  ...be omitted - ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'', for instance, or Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Adventu
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• The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge
  ...Given this, it is a little surprising to find nothing similar for Wilkie Collins, who is sometimes regarded as the English father of the genre. There are a
  6 KB (942 words) - 14:37, 24 September 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephanie Elmas
  ...for my Masters degree on Victorian sensation writing: authors like Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I’d loved doing that research and it was all
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• The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine
  ...Agatha Christie]] and Carolyn Keene, the Victorian mystery world of Wilkie Collins, the old fashioned adventure stories of [[:Category:Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton
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• The Worms of Euston Square by William Sutton
  ...Time of Queen Victoria, Gladstone and Disraeli, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. It's the height of Victorian Britain, more than 10 years after the (mainly
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