Wilkie Collins
From time to time I write pieces relating to Wilkie Collins and Victorian times.
April 2011
All The Year Round - non-fiction by Wilkie Collins
- an analysis of the 23 pieces ascribed to Collins - a minority are his
August 2010
Walter's Walk
Tracking the route of Walter Hartright when he met the Woman in White
29 March 2010
Educating Elizabeth Harriet Graves
Where Wilkie's god-daughter went to school and what Wilkie paid
19 March 2005
Dear Dickens - Collins's Letters to his Closest Friend
Text of a talk given at Sheffield University
Winter 2004
Burning: The Evidence
A new analysis of how and why Charles Dickens burned his correspondence in 1860. From
The Dickensian
Vol 100 Part 3.
Autumn 2002
My Dear Wilkie
- an analysis of Dickens's letters to Collins and what they tell us.
Spring 2002
Lunacy on the Isle of Man
- Collins did not campaign for better treatment of Manx lunatics.
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