THE WILKIE WEB

• David Grigg runs a useful site called the Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page from Melbourne, Australia bu he admits it is not updated as often as he would like.

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka is English Associate Professor and nineteenth century literature specialist at Nagoya University, Japan. He has some Wilkie Collins pages with a lot of information and useful links on Collins. He also has pages on several other nineteenth century authors.

• Andrew Gasson, chairman of The Wilkie Collins Society has his own site with some Wilkie Collins material including details of his book on Collins and an unpublished manuscript

• The Victorian Sensationalism Online site also has some Wilkie Collins material

• Michael Grost's British Sensation Fiction pages have some useful summaries and analyis of some of Collins' work.
• Jon Varese has some interesting material on contemporaries of Charles Dickens and what they thought of him. Of course many of them were also Collins's contemporaries and some were friends.
• The BBC broadcast a new film version of The Moonstone at the end of December 1996 and there was a short related item on Collins on a programme called Bookworm the week before.
• Kirsten Hüttner, one of the few German scholars working on Collins, has just published a book, in English, The Woman in White - Analysis, Reception and Literary Criticism of a Victorian Bestseller looking at the reception of the novel in Victorian times. She has a homepage about it. But there is a MASSIVE graphic to load.
  
• There is also a picture of Wilkie's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery
  
• A spanish site
  
• Archives of Detective Fiction a biography and bibliography
  
• Addison library A review of The Moonstone and a short biography
  
• Mysterynet a brief discussion of Dickens's and Collins's role in creating detective fiction
  
• A student essay on The Woman in White graded at low 2:1 high 2:2 - you have been warned!
  
• Palmer pastiche the home page of William Palmer who writes fake Wilkie Collins stories with a high sexual content and many mistakes about Collins's life
  
• A contemporary review from a book by Thomas Harringshaw Prominent Men and Women of the Day 1888
  
• David Arnott's Wilkie Collins Opinion Page a bit derivative but may be useful eventually
• A mention by Lewis Carroll of No Name in his Complete Stories.
  

For those who prefer paper - and don't we all sometimes - there is a Wilkie Collins Society here in London. Its chairman is Andrew Gasson, a notable Collins collector and enthusiast who has written Wilkie Collins: an Illustrated Guide to be published by the Oxford University Press early in 1998. Members get a regular newsletter with information about Collins studies and publications. The society also publishes small editions of hard-to-find Collins works.
For more details contact

Paul Lewis, Membership Secretary, 4 Ernest Gardens, London W4 3QU or email paul@paullewis.co.uk

There is also a Wilkie Collins society in the USA. For more information contact Lillian Nayder by email or write to Professor Lillian Nayder, Dept of English, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine 04240 USA