They can also be relied on to provide intelligent conversation when your beautiful but fragile wives are too busy swooning.ħ. Intelligent, resourceful women are likely to be mannish, and even actually HAVE a mustache, but are strong and have good figures. Never marry for convenience or enter into any legal agreement when you are:Ħ. Make sure that the marriage settlement is settled in your favor before marrying.ĥ. Instead of being the lady of the house, you might be forced to pay HIS debts.
If the said ancestral house is surrounded by dark ponds and eerie woods, expect the worst.Ĥ.Ě Baronet is not always noble, and his impressive manor and estate might be mortgaged to the hilt. Watch out if your newly wed husband lives in a stately pile with an abandoned wing full of creepy Elizabethan furniture. Italians are excitable, dedicated to the opera, and most likely to be involved with organized crime.Ģ.ěeware of fat, jolly Italian counts with submissive wives and fondness of white mice and canaries.ģ. What I learned from this book (in no particular order) :ġ. " in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels. 'The Moonstone', is seen by many as the first true detective novel T. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, 'The Woman in White' (1860), 'No Name' (1862), 'Armadale' (1866) and 'The Moonstone' (1868). It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, 'The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A'., to good reviews. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practised. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co.
However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.īorn in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 18. He is studied widely new film, television, and radio versions of some of his books have been made and all of his letters have been published. Most of his books are in print, and all are now in e-text. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has received for 50 years. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers.
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