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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824–23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work.
Life
Collins was born in London, the son of a well-known landscape artist, William. At 17 he left school and was apprenticed to a firm of tea merchants, but after five unhappy years, during which he wrote his first novel Iolani, he entered Lincoln's Inn to study law. (Iolani remained unpublished for over 150 years, finally seeing print in 1999.) After his father's death in 1847, Collins produced his first published book, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. (1848), and also considered a career in painting, exhibiting a picture at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1849, but it was with the publication of his first published novel Antonina in 1850 that his career as a writer began in earnest.
An instrumental event in Collins' career occurred in 1851 when he was introduced to Charles Dickens by a mutual friend, Augustus Egg. They became lifelong friends and collaborators; several of Collins' novels were serialised in Dickens' weekly publication All the Year Round, and Dickens later edited and published them himself.
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The Wilkie Collins Pages - Engravings from works, biography, links, and miscellaneous items such as Collins' will and what he thought of Dickens.
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Wilkie Collins - Encyclopedia-style introduction to the British writer, with links to related topics.
Wilkie Collins (1824-89) - Collins' section of Mitsuharu Matsuoka's list of Victorian resources with links to etexts and other sites.
Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page - Includes a biography and bibliography as well as news and links.
Wilkie Collins Information Pages - By Andrew Gasson. Includes biographical information, images, introduction to Collins's books and plays, along with quotations and bibliographies.
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