Book contents
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Critical Response and Afterlife
- Part III Contexts: Literary
- Chapter 16 Wilkie Collins’s Library
- Chapter 17 Wilkie Collins and Serialisation
- Chapter 18 Wilkie Collins and Sensation Fiction
- Chapter 19 Wilkie Collins and Scott
- Chapter 20 Wilkie Collins and Dickens
- Chapter 21 Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon and Other Women Writers
- Part IV Contexts: Cultural and Social
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 16 - Wilkie Collins’s Library
from Part III - Contexts: Literary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Critical Response and Afterlife
- Part III Contexts: Literary
- Chapter 16 Wilkie Collins’s Library
- Chapter 17 Wilkie Collins and Serialisation
- Chapter 18 Wilkie Collins and Sensation Fiction
- Chapter 19 Wilkie Collins and Scott
- Chapter 20 Wilkie Collins and Dickens
- Chapter 21 Wilkie Collins, Mary Braddon and Other Women Writers
- Part IV Contexts: Cultural and Social
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
A survey and reconstruction of Collins’s library based on auction records leading to an analysis of his literary and historical interests, as well as his favourite authors
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- Wilkie Collins in Context , pp. 147 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023