Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins
English
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father William Collins (painter)
- Brother: Charles Allston Collins
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1824/00/00 | Born | ||||||
1857/09/07 | Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins depart London by train for Carlisle, travel another 14 miles to the village of Hesketh Newmarket, and stay at the Queen's Head (private residence called Dickens House). | Visitor | Caldbeck | Cumbria | The Lazy Tour of Two Authors | ||
1857/09/08 | Despite bad weather, Dickens persuades a reluctant Collins to climb Carrock Fell, 8 mi (13 km) NE of Keswick. Carrying a broken compass, the lazy authors become lost in heavy mist on the descent where Wilkie badly sprains his ankle. | Visitor | Lake District | The Lazy Tour of Two Authors | |||
1857/09/09 | Dickens and Collins make it to Allonby in time for lunch. They stay for two nights at The Ship, described by Dickens as 'a capital little homely inn looking out upon the sea ... a clean nice place in a rough wild country'. | Visitor | Ship Hotel | Allonby | The Lazy Tour of Two Authors | ||
1859/11/26 | "The Woman in White" is serialized in "All the Year Round" weekly literary magazine, 26 November 1859 to 25 August 1860. Charles Dickens had asked friend Wilkie Collins to write a novel for his new magazine, Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities". | Author | The Woman in White | ||||
1860/00/00 | Catherine Dickens marries artist and author Charles Allston Collins, younger brother of Wilkie Collins, at St Mary's in Higham. | Brother of the Groom | Church Of St Mary, Higham | Higham | Marriage of Kate Dickens and Charles Allston Collins | ||
1867/12/26 | "No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts" by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins opens at the Adelphi Theatre starring Benjamin Webster, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Henry G Neville, Charles Albert Fechter, Carlotta Leclercq, John Billington and George G Belmore. | Playwright | The Adelphi Theatre | London | |||
1868/00/00 | The Moonstone - published | Author | The Moonstone (book) | ||||
1879/00/00 | The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is published by Chatto and Windus, London. | Author | The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice | ||||
1889/00/00 | Dies |
4 Creative Works by Wilkie Collins »
Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
The Woman in White | Author | Novel | 1859/11/26 |
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The Moonstone (book) | Author | Novel | 1868/00/00 |
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Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1875/08/04 | |
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice | Author | Book | 1879/00/00 |
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