Male : Practically the first English novelist to deal with the detection of crime. Son of William Collins, the landscape painter. Creator of Sergeant Cuff. He never married but Caroline Graves was his constant companion. Addicted to opium from 1862

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1824 Date of Death : 1889 Age : 65

Other Work : Barrister 1851 but didn't practise. Edited "Household Words"

1848-1850
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, R A (1848 Longmans) - 2 vols
Antonina, or The Fall of Rome (1850 Bentley - 3 vols) (1850 Harper NY)

1851-1860
Rambles Beyond Railways : Notes in Cornwall taken A-Foot (1851 Bentley) - Henry C Brandling
Mr Wray's Cash-Box : A Christmas Sketch (1852 Bentley) - frontis by Millais
Offered in 1998 for £780
Basil : A Story of Modern Life (1852 Bentley) - 3 vols
Hide and Seek, or the Mystery of Mary Grice (1854 Bentley) - 3 vols
After Dark (1855 Smith & Elder - 2 vols)
The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856 Dix, Edwards, NY) - with Charles Dickens
The Dead Secret (1857 Bradbury & Evans - 2 vols)
The Queen of Hearts (1859 Hurst & Blackett - 3 vols)
The Woman in White (1860 Harper NY) - One vol. (1860 Sampson Low - 3 vols)
[This first appeared in serial form in 1859 in "All the Year Round" in UK
and in "Harper's Weekly" in USA]
[Filmed in 1939 as "Crimes at the Dark House" & 1948 as "The Woman in White"]

1861-1870
No Name (1862 Sampson Low - 3 vols) (1863 Gardner A Fuller, Boston - 2 vols)
(1863 Tauchnitz - 3 vols)
My Miscellanies (1863 Sampson Low - 2 vols)
Offered in 1999 for £500
Armadale (1866 Smith, Elder - 2 vols) (1866 Harper)
No Thoroughfare (1867 All the Year Round, London) - Christmas Number. with Charles Dickens
The Moonstone : A Romance (1868 William Tinsley - 3 vols)
[Often called the 1st UK detective novel]
Offered in 1999 as a single bound volume for £2500
(1868 Harper NY)
Man and Wife (1870 F S Ellis - 3 vols) (1870 Harper NY)

1871-1880
Poor Miss Finch (1872 Bentley - 3 vols) - George Du Maurier & Edward Hughes
The New Magdalen (1873 Bentley - 2 vols) - George Du Maurier
Miss or Mrs ? & Other Stories (1873 Bentley)
The Dead Alive (1874 Shepard & Gill, Boston)
The Frozen Deep & other Tales (1874 Bentley - 2 vols) (1874 Tauchnitz)
(1875 Wm F Gill, Boston) - Alfred Fredericks
The Law and the Lady (1875 Chatto & Windus - 3 vols)
The Two Destinies (1876 C & W - 2 vols)
The Haunted Hotel and My Lady's Money (1878 Tauchnitz) (1879 C & W - 2 vols)
A Rogue's Life (1879 Bentley)
The Fallen Leaves (1879 C & W - 3 vols)
The Frozen Deep and Other Tales (1879 Chatto & Windus. New Ed) - M F Mahoney
Jezebel's Daughter (1880 C & W - 3 vols)
Offered in 1999 for £1200

1881-1900
The Black Robe (1881 C & W - 3 vols)
Heart and Science : A Story of the Present (1883 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £1250
I Say No (1884 C & W - 3 vols)
The Evil Genius (1886 C & W - 3 vols)
The Guilty River (1886 Arrowsmith)
Little Novels (1887 C & W) - 3 vols
The Legacy of Cain (1889 C & W - 3 vols)
The Works : Library Edition (1889-1908 Chatto & Windus) - 29 vols
Blind Love (1890 C & W - 3 vols) (1890 Tauchnitz)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890 Chapman & Hall - with Charles Dickens)
After Dark (1891 Chatto & Windus. New Ed) - Walter Crane & A B Houghton
The Works (1900 Peter Fenelon Collier, NY) - 30 vols

After 1901
The Lady of Glenwith Grange (1947 Atlantis) - 1st separate edition
The Moonstone (1959 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Andre Degnimont
The Woman in White (1964 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Leonard Rosoman

READING
(Ed) Norman Page : Dickens, Reade & Collins - Sensation Novelists (1919 Columbia UP, NY)
S M Ellis : Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu & others (1931 Constable)
T S Eliot : Wilkie Collins & Dickens (In His Selected Essays) (1932)
M L Parrish : Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade (1940 First Editions at Dormy House, New Jersey)
Kenneth Robinson : Wilkie Collins - A Biography (1951 Bodley Head)
Robert Ashley : Wilkie Collins (1952)
Nuel P Davis : The Life of Wilkie Collins (1956 Urbana, Illinois)
William H Marshall : Wilkie Collins (c1977 Twayne, NY)
Dorothy L Sayers : Wilkie Collins (1977 University of Toledo Library)
[Sayers didn't finish this but the MS was completed by E R Gregory]
Kirk H Beetz : Wilklie Collins - An Annotated Bibliography 1889-1976 (1978 Scarecrow Press, London)
R V Andrew : Wilkie Collins - A Critical Survey of His Prose Fiction with a Bibliography
(1979 Garland)
Sue Lonoff : Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers (1982 AMS Press, NY)
William M Clarke : The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins (1988 Allison & Busby)
(Ed) Norman Page : Wilkie Collins - The Critical Heritage (1995 Routledge)
Andrew Gasson : Wilkie Collins - An Illustrated Guide (1998 Oxford UP)