Wilkie Collins Society 

I would like to join the Wilkie Collins Society
□ UK/EU — £10
□ Rest of the world — £18

Household Words - Non-fiction by Wilkie Collins - Strike! - Highly Proper! - A Breach of British Privilege. Three of Collins's essays to Dickens's periodical Household Words from 1858 and 1859.  Edited with an introduction by Paul Lewis..April 2006.

The Widows - unpublished sketches for two plays concerning marriage law by Wilkie Collins. The first publication of the text of these short sketches with illustrations of original manuscripts and commentary by Andrew Gasson & Graham Law. Limited edition of 300 copies. September 2005.

A National Wrong by James Payn and Wilkie Collins. Reprint of a piece originally published on 12 February 1870 in Chambers Journal about Wilkie's copyright dispute with the Dutch publishers Belinfante Brothers. Includes a commentary on the case and the development of international copyright law by Professor Graham Law. July 2004.

The Cruise of the Tomtit. Reprint of one of Wilkie's longer and lighter pieces of non-fiction from Household Words. Includes Introduction by Paul Lewis and full footnotes. April 2003.

The Victims of Circumstances Discovered in the Records of Old Trials The first complete edition of this work. Ed. Graham Law. June 2002. Limited edition of 300 copies, A5 20pp. Includes the third story not published since 1887. June 2002.

Magnetic Evenings at Home August 2001, limited edition of 250 copies, A4, 28pp. An account of mesmerism and clairvoyance with a reply by G.H.Lewes. Originally published in The Leader January-April 1852.

A Novelist on Novel Writing March 2001, limited edition of 300 copies, A5 pamphlet 12pp.A recently discovered interview with Wilkie Collins revealing that Armadale was his own favourite among his works. Originally published in Cassell’s Saturday Journal 5 March 1887.

A Plea for Sunday Reform July 2000, limited edition of 300 copies, A5 pamphlet 12pp. An early polemical essay calling for art galleries and museums to open on Sundays. Originally published in The Leader 27 September 1851.

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy March 1999, limited edition of 300 copies, A5 pamphlet 16pp. A perceptive and entertaining account of the Summer Exhibition of Art. Originally published in Bentley’s Miscellany June 1851.

Considerations on the Copyright Question Addressed to an American Friend November 1997, limited edition of 300 copies, A5 pamphlet 20pp. A diatribe against the lack of copyright protection for foreign writers in the United States of America. Originally published as a pamphlet in 1880.

A Pictorial Tour to St. George Bosherville November 1996, limited edition of 300 copies, A5 pamphlet 28pp. A comic account of a painting trip in France. Originally published in Bentley’s Miscellany May 1851.

A Little Fable July 1996, limited edition of 200 copies, A5 pamphlet 12pp. A copy and transcript of a hitherto unpublished manuscript from the early 1880s. Similar to part of Heart and Science. Last few copies for sale.

Rambles Around Marylebone by William M. Clarke, 1994. An account of houses Wilkie lived in with a map and route to see them. A5 pamphlet, 12pp. Signed by the author. With updated information sheet from the Summer 2000 Wilkie Collins Society walk.

 

Wilkie Collins Society Journal--New Series - ISSN : 0897 2982
Edited by Collins scholars Professor Graham Law and Professor Lillian Nayder, the Journal publishes academic papers on the work and life of Wilkie Collins.

· Simon Cooke: Action and Attitude: Wilkie Collins and the Language of Melodramatic Gesture
· Catherine Peters: Frances Dickinson: Friend of Wilkie Collins
· Carolyn Oulton: Wilkie Collins – An Interpretation of Christian Belief
· K A Kale: Yes and No: Problems of Closure in Collins’s “I Say No!”
· P D Edwards: Wilkie Collins and Edmund Yates: a Postscript
· Graham Law: Materials Relating to Collins in the Watt Collection at Chapel Hill
· Reviews of
Wilkie Collins by Lillian Nayder
Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Gasson

· Richard Collins: The Ruins of Copán in “The Woman in White”: Wilkie Collins and John Stephens’ “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
· Simon Cooke: Reading Landscapes: Wilkie Collins, the Pathetic Fallacy and the Semiotics of the Victorian Wasteland
· K A Kale: Could Lydia Gwilt have been happy? A New Reading of “Armadale” as Marital Tragedy
· Phyllis Weaver: Music and Female Power in Sensation Fiction
· Allan W Atlas: Collins, Count Fosco, and the Concertina
· Steve Farmer & Graham Law: ‘Belt and Braces’ Serialization: The Case of “Heart and Science”
· Reviews of
The Letters of Wilkie Collins by Baker and Clarke,
Ioláni ed. Ira Nadel,
The Moonstone ed. Steve Farmer.

· Steve Dillon: Resurfacing Collins’s “Basil”
· Andrew Maunder: Ellen Wood was a Writer: Rediscovering Collins’s Rival
· Emma Liggins: Of the Violence of the Working Woman: Collins and Discourses on Criminality, 1860-1880
· Mark Knight: Rethinking Bibliolatry: Wilkie Collins, William Booth and the Culture of Evangelicalism
· Susan R Hanes: Wilkie Collins and Dorothy L. Sayers
· Graham Law: “Poor Fargus”: On Wilkie Collins and “Hugh Conway”

Postcard – Portrait of Wilkie Collins by his friend John Everett Millais, 1851. National Portrait Gallery reproduction.

Badge – The Wilkie Collins Society badge is a small enamel version of Wilkie’s monogram in black and silver, now used as the logo of the Society.

Journal
Wilkie Collins Society Journal—New Series  — £5 each
□ 1998 volume 1 — £5
□ 1999 vol 2 — £5
□ 2000 vol 3 — £5
□ 2001 vol 4 — £5
□ 2002 vol 5 — £5
□ 2003 vol 6 — £5
□ 2004 vol 7 — £5
□ 2005 vol 8 — £5

Photocopies of articles from the original series of the WCSJ 1981-1991 vols. I - VIII are available on request.. Details and prices from paul@paullewis.co.uk

Wilkie Collins Society Newsletters — 50p each; £1 with supplements
□ Spring 2006 – with The mystery of The Woman in White in Leicester by Valerie Pedlar — £1
□ Winter 2005 – with Wilkie on the Airwaves - Part I - BBC by Paul Lewis and The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and Corrigenda (1) — £1  
□ Summer 2005
□ Winter 2004
□ Summer 2004
□ Spring 2004 – with The Wilkie Collins Memorial Library by Andrew Gasson — £1
□ Winter 2003
□ Summer 2003 
□ Spring 2003  
□ Winter 2002
□ Summer 2002
□ Spring 2002 with Lunacy on the Isle of Man by Paul Lewis — £1
□ Winter 2001 
□ Summer 2001 
□ Spring 2001
□ Winter 2000
□ Summer 2000 
□ Spring 2000
□ Winter 1999 – with World Wide Wilkie — £1.
□ Summer 1999 – with ‘Wilkie Collins and Crime Fiction’ — £1.
□ Spring 1999 – with Different Worlds Winter 1998 — £1
□ Summer 1998 – with Wilkie Collins and West Norwood Cemetery and Wilkie Collins and his ‘Dear Dutchmen’ — £1.
□ Spring 1998 – with The Preface to the French Edition of The Woman in White — £1.
□ Winter 1997 – with The Possible Influence of Wilkie Collins on Bram Stoker — £1
□ Summer 1997 – with The Narrators in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and An Analysis of the Handwriting of Wilkie Collins — £1
□ Winter/Spring 1997 — £1

Miscellaneous
□ Postcard – Portrait of Wilkie Collins by Millais, 1851 — 50p
□ Badge – Wilkie’s monogram in black and silver enamel — £1.

Reprints
□ Household Words - Non-fiction by Wilkie Collins April 2006 — £4
□ The Widows September 2005 — £4
□ A National Wrong July 2004 — £4
□ The Cruise of the Tomtit April 2003 — £4
□ The Victims of Circumstances June 2002 — £4
□ Magnetic Evenings at Home August 2001— £4
□ A Novelist on Novel Writing March 2001— £4
□ A Plea for Sunday Reform July 2000 — £4
□ The Exhibition of the Royal Academy March 1999 — £4
□ Considerations on the Copyright Question Addressed to an American Friend November 1997 — £4
□ A Pictorial Tour to St. George Bosherville Nov. 1996. — £4
□ A Little Fable July 1996 — £5
□ Rambles Around Marylebone by William M. Clarke, 1994. With updated information sheet — £54

Add Postage □ UK/EU — £2
□ Rest of the world — £4

I would like to join the Wilkie Collins Society and get future publications free
□ UK/EU — £10
□ Rest of the world — £18