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Wilkie CollinsWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January, 1824 – 23 September 1889) was a Victorian era British writer, a contemporary and friend of the more famous Charles Dickens. His fiction was classified at the time as 'Sensation fiction', but is seen nowadays the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His early novel The Woman in White (1860) deals effectively with issues relating the women's roles in Victorian society as well as establishing a fine set of villains and innocent, female victims. The Moonstone (1868) is notable for its structure: somewhat resembling an epistolary novel, different portions of the book have different narrators, each with a very distinct narrative voice. One of the things that made The Moonstone such a success was its sensationalist depiction of opium addiction. Unbeknownst to his readership, Collins was writing from personal experience. In his later years, Collins grew severely addicted to laudanum and as a result suffered from paranoid delusions, the most notable being his conviction that he was constantly accompanied by a doppelganger he dubbed "Ghost Wilkie". External links The Wilkie Collins Website Collins, Wilkie Collins, Wilkie
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