Wilkie collins

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889).English novelist and playwright. He is best known fo the classic haunting mystery novel,'The Woman in White',and the epistolery detective novel,'The Monstone' which laid much of the groundwork for the detective novel genre thereafter

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'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters Marian and her sister Laura live a…

'A masterpiece' The Times After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her keep but Magdalen has grander plans and embarks on an elaborate scheme of revenge against her cold-hearted relatives. INCLUDES 'MRS ZANT AND THE GHOST'

Michael Lobban, Margot Finn, Taylor Jenny Bourne (ed.), Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-century Law, Literature and History Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). New York, 2010, 248 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0230576520 This innovative collection of essays by prominent scholars from the disciplines of literary studies, history and law explores the many ways in which notions of legtitimacy were shaped and contested in Georgian and Victorian Britain…

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for...

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money - and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with…