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As was indicated in Volume 1, this two-volume edition of the letters of Wilkie Collins will shed light on the life and activities of one of the few remaining major Victorian creative personalities whose letters and papers remain uncollected and unpublished. Although Collins has been the subject of recent biographies, these works only quote brief extracts from the limited correspondence already available to biographers. Now that permission has been given to examine and publish the whole correspondenceone of the editors, William Clarke, is the husband of Collins' great-granddaughter and author of a revealing biography of Collins The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins (1988, 1996)-this two-volume edition will illuminate an extraordinarily rich and varied Victorian life. It will shed light on Victorian literature and publishing, music, art and many other areas of intellectual, cultural and artistic endeavour. As explained in Volume 1, there are two main sources for Collins letters: those which survive in institutional holdings or in private hands; and those which have disappeared but survive in printed form. In Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins, published by Harper Brothers in Ne

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Author

William Baker, William M. Clarke (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333732472

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism