PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens' and contributed to Household Works. Collins began by writing plays, but is most remembered for his novels, including The Moonstone (1868) and The Woman in White (1860). He died in 1889. John Sutherland is Professor of English at University College, London. He has edited many books for Penguin Classics, including Anthony Trollope.
[A]dopts a...contextually compelling perspective... Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900<br> The argument of this book...is a compelling one, and likely to be influential--partly because of the fluent articulation Eltis gives it, partly because of the sheer weight of archival evidence that she has assembled from little-known source plays and manuscripts. --Victorian Studies<br>
