{"id":3871,"date":"2015-10-19T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:11:40","slug":"wilkie-collins-a-brief-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/wilkie-collins-a-brief-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wilkie<\/a>Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 \u2013 September 23,\u00a01889) was an English novelist. \u00a0Some of his best-known works are The Woman in White<\/em> \u00a0and The Moonstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Peter Ackroyd has written a bibliography about this famous Victorian and good friend of Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely near-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women\u2014and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, “the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists,” from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his lifelong friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n

Order\u00a0Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life<\/em> <\/a>by Peter Ackroyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889) was an English novelist. Some of his best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038],"tags":[851,532,228],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies","tag-the-moonstone","tag-the-woman-in-white","tag-wilkie-collins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t