Wilkie collins

'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'

Wilkie Collins

Dickens was a social man. People in his circle included Wilkie Collins, John Forster, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Elliotson and Edgar Allan Poe.

'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S Eliot When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during the night the ensuing investigations gradually bring to light the sinister history of the jewel and the passions and plots of those close to Rachel. 'Probably the very finest detective story…

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.

'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…

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Born on 8 January 200 years ago, the Victorian writer is best known for his mystery novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone. But with more than 30 books to choose from, here are some good places to begin

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…

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