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Wilkie Collins

 

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Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

Wilkie Collins : The Woman in White

'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

Wilkie Collins : Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners"

'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes     Print: Serial / periodical

  

Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone

The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Wilkie Collins : The Moonstone

The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the detective prime?”

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

 

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