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Approximately halfway through #DanSimmons' Drood; I have so far resisted googling a single thing about #WilkieCollins, #CharlesDickens, or #TheMysteryofEdmundDrood. Delayed gratification FTW.

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Dear Mama. Your embon has become rather too pointed and to quote Mr #wilkieCollins you have acquired an autumnal exuberance of figure. We have made you an appointment with Mr #WilliamBanting #GirlsOwnCC

Quando ero più piccino vidi lo sceneggiato televisivo tratto dal libro di Wilkie Collins. Mi aveva talmente appassionato che comprai il libro e riuscii a leggerlo prima della fine dell'ultima puntata.

#WilkieCollins #pietra_di_luna

The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into ‘reading for pleasure’, asks Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

#NationalReadingYear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I worry about The Youth' not reading. Maybe this is an explanation. They're disturbed by encountering 'diffficult' material. Currently re-reading #WilkieCollins' #TheMoonstone and #JamesCurtis' W.C. Fields: A Biography.

Victorian drama walked so modern thrillers could RUN 👻📖 Gaslighting, secrets, and a woman in white ruining men’s lives since 1859.

#wilkiecollins
#victoriangothic
#classicreads
#thewomaninwhite
#mrebeccawildsmith

#WilkieCollins Someone needs to do a #film/#tv adaptation of #Armadale, because I love, love love Lydia Gwilt.

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

✒️ #WilkieCollins, English writer, was #BOTD 8 January 1824. #Literature

Quote of the Day “I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is—the enormous prosperity of Fools.” — Wilkie Collins, No Name

“I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is—the enormous prosperity of Fools.” — Wilkie Collins, No Name
#BOTD #WilkieCollins #Quote #Fools #QOTD #Prosperity #Quotation

🎉 Happy Birthday to #WilkieCollins, #bornonthisday in 1824! A pioneer of detective fiction, he authored The Woman in White and The Moonstone—considered the first modern detective novel—shaping crime fiction with complex plots, suspense, and social themes. #CrimeFiction

A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (1852): A Review Get daily insights into literary history, find your next great read with our book reviews, and explore lists of award-winning books.

A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (1852): A Review

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#shortstories #shortstoryreview #ATerriblyStrangeBed #WilkieCollins #booksky

"Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 4 Jan 1868, #WilkieCollins' "The Moonstone" was first serialized in "All the Year Round" magazine, which was owned by #CharlesDickens.

Armadale by Wilkie Collins with a cover featuring a painting by Gabriel Dante Rossetti

#Armadale by #WilkieCollins is every bit the page-turner @iolantherosa.bsky.social had promised me it was!

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THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948) Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
Dir.: Peter Godfrey 7:45 AM PT

A young tutor is sent to a ghostly country estate.

1h 49m | Romantic Mystery | TV-G

#TCM #TCMParty #WilkieCollins

Coming soon.

#WomanInWhite #WilkieCollins #VictorianMystery #SensationNovel #MarianHalcombe #CountFosco #MultipleNarrators #GothicMystery #BritishMystery #CollinsClassic

The Year of Sherlock - October 2025 (Moonstone Musings) What is a moonstone? Per  Merriam-Webster , moonstone is “a transparent or translucent feldspar [mineral] of pearly or opaline luster used a...

Jaclyn Lurker explores Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the connections to Sherlock Holmes, and October's Holmes happenings. A literary view from detective origins to modern adaptations.
#SherlockHolmes #LiteraryAnalysis #DetectiveFiction #WilkieCollins

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THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948) Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
Dir.: Peter Godfrey 11:15 PM PT

A young tutor is sent to a ghostly country estate.

1h 49m | Romantic Mystery | TV-G

#TCM #TCMParty #WilkieCollins

So proud of my #Victober #reads! 📚😍

- Mansfield Park by #JaneAusten - 5 ⭐️

- Selected poems by #EmiliDickinson (reread) - 5 ⭐️

- Jane Eyre by #CharlotteBrontë - 5 ⭐️

- Persuasion by Jane Austen (reread) - 5 ⭐️

- The Woman In White by #WilkieCollins (60% read, possible DNF).

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👻 The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins. Belgravia magazine dated 1878 www.steve-calvert.co.uk/the-haunted-... #haunted #ghost #spooky #Halloween #Belgravia #BelgraviaMagazine #WilkieCollins

Edward Gorey, mystery fan. A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction

I'm so used to female voices (I've read mostly women for the last 2 years) that any sexist idea/comment by male authors hurts unbearably. I'm aware of the XIX century mindset, but #WilkieCollins hits a new sexist record in the first pages of #TheWomanInWhite. Bad start or norm? Future DNF?

#BookSky

Coming soon.

#TheMoonstone #WilkieCollins #VictorianMystery #DetectiveFiction #StolenDiamond #SergeantCuff #EarlyDetective #SensationNovel #BritishMystery #CollinsClassic

“The #books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!” (Armadale)

✒️ #WilkieCollins, English author (The Moonstone) and playwright, #DOTD 23 September 1889. #Literature

Not proven verdict to be scrapped as Scottish Parliament backs reforms The verdict has been used in criminal trials for hundreds of years but campaigners had called for it to be abolished.

The Scottish #NotProven verdict is at the centre of one of my favourite #WilkieCollins novels “The law and the lady” Strong minded heroine and one of his wonderful villains

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THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948) Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
Dir.: Peter Godfrey 11:00 AM PT

A young tutor is sent to a ghostly country estate.

1h 49m | Romantic Mystery | TV-G

#TCM #TCMParty #WilkieCollins

Yikes. Yes, I know they're doomed romances, but let's just say some characters are more doomed than others. #BookSky #WilkieCollins #ShortStories

Finished this on the beach. One of my very favourite books. A beautiful opening, intricate plotting with an epic scope, ingenious storytelling and fabulous characters. My copy is 40 years old and I love picking it up to enjoy it all over again. #TheWomanInWhite #WilkieCollins

Wilkie Collins’s No Name in the Penguin Classics edition

A real page turner – #NoName by #WilkieCollins starts like a satire à la Trollope and then turns into a thriller with more twists than you’d think reasonable. Also – brilliant, funny passages about dogs
#Booksy 📚

In honour of today's date, this is my favourite line from one of my absolute favourite novels. #WilkieCollins #TheWomanInWhite

The Woman in White: Thoughts

A well written, well-paced, and intriguing tale by Wilkie Collins that was originally published in 1860.

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#Books #BookReview #Montreal #BusinessEnglish #LinoMatteo #Mystery #WilkieCollins