![]() ![]() They also collaborated on drama and fiction. ![]() Some of his work appeared in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. After Antonina, his first novel, appeared in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. īorn to the London painter William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved with them to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years, learning both Italian and French. ![]() William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early " sensation novel", and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. ![]()
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