- Fiction, Social life and customs, Inheritance and succession, Inheritance and succession in fiction
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- Author
- Wilkie Collins
- First published
- 1857
- Pages
- 359
- Publisher
- B. Tauchnitz, Bibliotech Press, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 167
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9783596137664
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- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Inheritance and succession
- Inheritance and succession in fiction
- England in fiction
- Mothers and daughters in fiction
- Illegitimate children in fiction
- Mothers and daughters
- Illegitimate children
- Mystery
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
“'WILL she last out the night, I wonder?'”
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for *The Woman in White* (1859) and *The Moonstone* (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals *All the Year Round* and *Household Words* and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieve
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