The King of Inventors : : A Life of Wilkie Collins / / Catherine Peters.
In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone. An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelites Holman Hunt and Millais, Collins was c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (530 p.) :; 12 pages of halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- One. Families (1788-1822)
- Two A Happy Family (1823-1835)
- Three. Educations (1836-1840)
- Four. The Prison at the Strand (1841-1847)
- Five. Publication ( 1847-1851)
- Six. 'The Fire of Artistic Ambition'(1851-1852)
- Seven. The Sorcerer and the Apprentice (1852-1853)
- Eight. In the Sorcerer's Footsteps (1853-1854)
- Nine. The Setting-up of a Balloon (1855-1856)
- Ten. The Frozen Deep (1856-1858)
- Eleven. Secret Connections (1858-1859)
- Twelve. The Woman in White (1859-1860)
- Thirteen. At the Top of the Tree (1860-1862)
- Fourteen. No Name (1862-1864)
- Fifteen. Armadale: The Self and the Shadow (1863-1866)
- Sixteen. 'Wild yet domestic': Wilkie's family mysteries (1867-1868)
- Seventeen. The Moonstone (1867-1870)
- Eighteen. After Dickens (1870-1872)
- Nineteen. Wilkie and the Theatre (1871-1874)
- Twenty. America (1873-1874)
- Twenty-one. The Law and the Lady (1874-1879)
- Twenty-two. The Unknown Public (1878-1885)
- Twenty-three. The Final Years (1885-1889)
- Twenty-four. The Journey's End (1889)
- APPENDIX A. Charles Collins' 'Secret Connection'
- APPENDIX B. Wilkie Collins' Travelling Desk
- APPENDIX C. Wilkie Collins' First, Unpublished Novel
- References
- Bibliography
- Index