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Secret Life of Wilkie Collins

William Clarke
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first detective novel in modern fiction
iolani
john constable
john everett millais
london
Martha Rudd
menage a trois
mistresses
paris
samuel taylor coleridge
the moonstone
the woman in white
themoonstone
victorian
victorian era
victorian novelist
victorian society
Wilkie Collins
william blake
william wordsworth

Product details

  • ISBN 9780750937665
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Aug 2004
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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When Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, the first detective novel in modern fiction, died in 1889, he shocked the Victorians by dividing his estate equally between two mistresses, Caroline Graves and Martha Rudd, and acknowledging Martha Rudd's three children as his own.

William Clarke, married to Collins' great granddaughter, pieces together the truth behind the menage a trois. He describes Collins' friendship with Dickens, with whom he spent wild weekends in London and Paris, as well as his many interesting encounters with other writers and artists of the day, including Coleridge, Wordsworth, Constable, Blake, Millais and Rossetti. This biography brings to life one of the most prolific and successful Victorian novelists.

This new edition includes the story of the recent discovery in New York of the manuscript of Collins' first unpublished novel Iolani.
About William Clarke
William M. Clarke is married to Wilkie Collins' Great Granddaughter.

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