Wilkie collins autobiography definition

          The 'little autobiography' is a strikingly sparse account and is characteristic of Collins's other descriptions of his early life....

          Using his father's name, which was also his own, as a means of establishing himself as an author, the Memoirs becomes more than just a biography.

        1. Wilkie Collins (b.
        2. The 'little autobiography' is a strikingly sparse account and is characteristic of Collins's other descriptions of his early life.
        3. Andrew Lycett's lucid biography unpicks the contradictions at the heart of Wilkie Collins's character.
        4. Wilkie Collins lived what appears to have been a full, exciting and satisfying life.

          5. Wilkie Collins - A Short Biography

           

          [ Introduction ]  [The Early Years ]  [The Dickens Connection ]  [The Woman in White and success ]

          [ The Other Woman ]  [The Moonstone ]  [The Final Years ]

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          Introduction

          William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years.

          Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel. During his lifetime, however, he wrote over thirty major books, well over a hundred articles, short stories and essays, and a dozen or more plays.

           

          He lived an unconventional, Bohemian lifestyle, loved good food and wine to excess, wore flamboyant clothes, travelled abroad frequently, formed long-term relationships with two women but married neither,