boydellbrewer:“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters
boydellbrewer:“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”On this day in literary history, Wilkie Collins, sensation novelist and pioneer of detective fiction was born on this day in 1824. Arguably best known for his novel, ‘The Woman in White’, first serialised in Charles Dickens’s journal ‘All The Year Round’, starting in November 1859.'The Woman in White’ was the key book in establishing what became known as 'sensation fiction’ - the intriciately plotted novel that combines domestic realism, romance and gruesome crimes and fusing that with elements of the Gothic. Instead of finding horrors in a fantastical Medieval castle, they were instead found behind the doors of normal suburban houses. -- source link
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