why Wilkie Collins is so much more than a mystery writer
- Written by: Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, The University of Melbourne
Wilkie Collins photographed in 1874.Wikimedia CommonsWilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism, however, has traditionally seen him as only notable for his two mystery novels, The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone...
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