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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780750937665
ISBN: 0750937661
Label: Sutton Publishing
Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-02
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Studio: Sutton Publishing

'It is unlikely that there can now be a fuller or more factual life of Collins than Clarke has given us' London Review of Books. Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Women in White, had a private life that rivalled some of his more fanciful plots. When he died in 1889, he shocked Victorian society by dividing his estate equally between two mistresses, Caroline Graves and Martha Rudd, and acknowledging Martha's three children as his own.Clarke pieces together the truth behind this menage a trois, and brings to life one of the Victorian age's most colourful characters. The biography covers his early meetings with Coleridge, Wordsworth and Constable as well as his later friendship with the pre-Raphaelites, and his wild weekends with Charles Dickens in London and Paris.