ellauri109.html on line 511: Many literary figures have dreaded the spectre of the biographer. Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Sylvia Plath are but a few who put their letters and journals into the fire. Lea poltti päiväkirjansa kommunistien pelossa ja repi lottapuvun matonkuteixi. James admitted to his nephew and literary executor that his singular desire in old age was to “frustrate as utterly as possible the postmortem exploiter.”
ellauri272.html on line 705: MömmötColeridge Sam, Collins Wilkie, Keats John, Poe Edgar, Quincy Thomas
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 670: Tästä tuli mieleen Seijalle Pikin mielikirja Valkopukuinen nainen (author: Charles Dickensin (1812–1870) läheinen ystävä ja työtoveri Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) joka oli Englannin ensimmäinen salapoliisikirjailija ja modernin rikosromaanin edelläkävijä.) Ja mulle Jane Eyren silmäpuolen hirviön eka mamuvaimo lukon takana yläkerrassa.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 672: William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been posited as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, he moved with the family to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years and learning Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After publishing Antonina, his first novel, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some Collins work first appeared in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. They also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins gained financial stability and an international following by the 1860s, but began to suffer from gout and became addicted to the opium he took for the pain, so that his health and writing quality declined in the 1870s and 1880s. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between widow Caroline Graves – living with her for most of his adult life, treating her daughter as his – and the younger Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children.
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