Miss or Mrs. - Collins, Wilkie
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Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Miss or Mrs? is a story of true love, unrequited love, greed, dark deeds, and clandestine marriage. Collins has created one of the most insipid leading ladies in Victorian fiction. Natalie is the daughter of wealthy Sir Joseph Graybrooke. She has two beaus fighting for her attention. Richard Turlington finds his business sinking…mehr

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Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Miss or Mrs? is a story of true love, unrequited love, greed, dark deeds, and clandestine marriage. Collins has created one of the most insipid leading ladies in Victorian fiction. Natalie is the daughter of wealthy Sir Joseph Graybrooke. She has two beaus fighting for her attention. Richard Turlington finds his business sinking and devises plans to save it that involve blackmail, attempted murder, and commercial fraud. There is also a murderous sea captain. The writing is pure Collins and a joy to read.
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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 achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children.