Awards
- Commended for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1994.
- Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1994
- Short-listed for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books 1994 (United States)
- Shortlisted for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1994.
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Author: Catherine Peters
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Volume: 4404
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.709kg
ISBN: 9780691606989
ISBN 10: 0691606986
Pages: 530
Publication Date: 14 July 2014
Audience:
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Language: English
Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, pg. xi*One. Families (1788-1822), pg. 1*Two A Happy Family (1823-1835), pg. 19*Three. Educations (1836-1840), pg. 37*Four. The Prison at the Strand (1841-1847), pg. 55*Five. Publication ( 1847-1851), pg. 75*Six. 'The Fire of Artistic Ambition'(1851-1852), pg. 95*Seven. The Sorcerer and the Apprentice (1852-1853), pg. 115*Eight. In the Sorcerer's Footsteps (1853-1854), pg. 131*Nine. The Setting-up of a Balloon (1855-1856), pg. 147*Ten. The Frozen Deep (1856-1858), pg. 165*Eleven. Secret Connections (1858-1859), pg. 187*Twelve. The Woman in White (1859-1860), pg. 205*Thirteen. At the Top of the Tree (1860-1862), pg. 227*Fourteen. No Name (1862-1864), pg. 247*Fifteen. Armadale: The Self and the Shadow (1863-1866), pg. 263*Sixteen. 'Wild yet domestic': Wilkie's family mysteries (1867-1868), pg. 285*Seventeen. The Moonstone (1867-1870), pg. 303*Eighteen. After Dickens (1870-1872), pg. 319*Nineteen. Wilkie and the Theatre (1871-1874), pg. 333*Twenty-one. The Law and the Lady (1874-1879), pg. 367*Twenty-two. The Unknown Public (1878-1885), pg. 385*Twenty-three. The Final Years (1885-1889), pg. 407*Twenty-four. The Journey's End (1889), pg. 427*APPENDIX A. Charles Collins' 'Secret Connection', pg. 435*APPENDIX B. Wilkie Collins' Travelling Desk, pg. 439*APPENDIX C. Wilkie Collins' First, Unpublished Novel, pg. 441*References, pg. 445*Bibliography, pg. 479*Index, pg. 493
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 [Collins] clearly relished performing his life, one minute as the well-known author Wilkie Collins, the next as 'Mr. William Dawson' holidaying in Ramsgate with Mrs. Dawson and the children... Dealing with such an extraordinary life and such extraordinary fictions, most accounts of the artistic life would have no difficulty in presenting the one as simply a spill-over from the other. In this admirable biography, Catherine Peters resists such reductiveness. --Stephen Gill, The Times Literary Supplement [Collins's] oddity was increased by his addiction to opium, which he carried around with him in a silver hip-flask. 'All his life,' we learn from his present biographer, he was 'haunted by a second self,' by the idea that 'someone was standing behind him.' ... Catherine Peters's book is crammed with interesting details. --Peter Quennell, The Evening Standard The first readable portrait of Collins as a human being. --Francoise Riviere, The European A wonderful case study in Victorian morals... [Peters] offers a fascinating story, plainly told. --William St. Clair, Financial Times As intelligent and comprehensive account of [Collins's] work as we are ever likely to have. --Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 [Collins] clearly relished performing his life, one minute as the well-known author Wilkie Collins, the next as 'Mr. William Dawson' holidaying in Ramsgate with Mrs. Dawson and the children... Dealing with such an extraordinary life and such extraordinary fictions, most accounts of the artistic life would have no difficulty in presenting the one as simply a spill-over from the other. In this admirable biography, Catherine Peters resists such reductiveness. --Stephen Gill, The Times Literary Supplement [Collins's] oddity was increased by his addiction to opium, which he carried around with him in a silver hip-flask. 'All his life,' we learn from his present biographer, he was 'haunted by a second self,' by the idea that 'someone was standing behind him.' ... Catherine Peters's book is crammed with interesting details. --Peter Quennell, The Evening Standard The first readable portrait of Collins as a human being. --Franoise Rivire, The European A wonderful case study in Victorian morals... [Peters] offers a fascinating story, plainly told. --William St. Clair, Financial Times As intelligent and comprehensive account of [Collins's] work as we are ever likely to have. --Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday
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