Wilkie Collins author background notes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Wilkie Collins | leading English writer of sensational mystery novels of the 19th century |
| The Moonshine (1868) The Woman in White (1860) | 2 of the greatest mysteries ever written |
| ploy | his fame came mainly to his gift to be able to develop what |
| 1851 | when did Dickens and Collins meet |
| court reporter | what was dickens in law |
| Lincoln's Inn | where did Collins study law |
| 1851 | when was Collins admitted to the bar |
| Memories of the Life of William Collins | What was Collin's first book |
| Antonia | first novel published in 1850 |
| Household Words in 1856 | met with Dickens and began submitting stories to Dicken's magazine- |
| Anne Rodway | who was his first detective character |
| Queen of Hearts (1859) | Many of his detective stories were collected in the- |
| All the year round | The Woman in White and The Moonstone were serialized in another Dickens publication- |
| gout | an eye disease he got and struggled to finish The Moonstone |
| laudanum | became increasingly addicted to this drug which relieved his pain |
| tradition | this hardly existed in mysteries and crime fiction |
| Novel of Manners | often preoccupied with marriage, and inserted sensational, mysterious, and even supernatural elements to it |
| Class issues and social problems | also constant themes |
| The Law and the Lady | partially based on the actual case of madeleine smith |
| My Lady's Money | another mystery novel |
| Old sharon | last significant mystery novel in which Collins created the memorable character _________. |
| melodrama | use of _________ ws seen to be Collins' and Achilles' heel by critics |
| procedural | from which melodrama- and often drama or even interest- is expunged completely |
| melodrama | term applied to sensational action without adequate motivation, in any work of fiction |
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