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ISBN-13: | 9781530195749 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 03/05/2016 |
Pages: | 374 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.77(d) |
About the Author
Walter Besant (1836–1901) was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and studied at King's College, London. He would later work in higher education at Royal College, Mauritius, where he taught mathematics. During this time, Besant also began his extensive writing career. In 1868 he published Studies in Early French Poetry followed by a fruitful collaboration with James Rice, which produced Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), and The Golden Butterfly(1876). Besant’s career spanned genres and mediums including fiction, non-fiction, plays and various collections.
Date of Birth:
December 8, 1824Date of Death:
September 23, 1889Place of Birth:
London, EnglandPlace of Death:
London, EnglandEducation:
Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, LondonTable of Contents
Acknowledgements- Historical Context: The Irish Question Wilkie Collins’s Response to the Irish Question Anglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist Agenda Wilkie Collins and the “Woman Question” The Von Scheurer Fraud Blind Love: The History and Evolution of the Text
William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Blind Love
Appendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins
- “Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Times, 24 September 1889
- “The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Illustrated London News, 28 September 1889
- “Obituary.Wilkie Collins,” The Academy, 28 September 1889
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins’s Work
- Edmund Yates, “The Works of Wilkie Collins,” Temple Bar, August 1890
- Meredith White Thompson,“Wilkie Collins,” The Spectator, 28 September 1889
- George Cotterell, “New Novels,” The Academy, 15 March 1890
- “Blind Love,” New York Tribune, 23 January 1890
- Andrew Lang, “Mr. Wilkie Collins’s Novels,” Contemporary Review, January 1890
- Harold Quilter, “In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins,” The Universal Review, 5, 1889
Appendix C: Horace Pym’s Notes on the Von Scheurer Case
Appendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial
- “The Scheurer Frauds,” The Times, 25 April 1888
- “France,” The Times, 26 April 1888
- “France,” The Times, 27 April 1888
Appendix E: The Prologue to “Iris,” Manuscript “C,” 1887
Appendix F: Excerpts from Collins’s Plans for Blind Love: The Synopsis
- The Cast of Characters
- The Synopsis
Appendix G: The Irish Question
- Accounts from The Times, 1882
- The Irish as Depicted in Punch, 1866, 1881, 1882
Appendix H: The Duties of the Lady’s Maid
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