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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am greatly indebted to Faith Clarke, Wilkie Collins’s great-granddaughter for her support and encouragement, and for her kind permission to quote from Wilkie Collins’s works and letters. I would also like to thank her late husband, William Clarke, who himself wrote a fine biography of Wilkie Collins and who pointed me on my way at the start of my own efforts.
In the field of Wilkie Collins studies, there are two additional people who a) know more about the author than anyone else and b) are incredibly generous with their time and resources. I am extremely grateful to Andrew Gasson and Paul Lewis for the help and guidance they have freely given me at every juncture. I could not have written my book without them. They both run excellent websites http://www.wilkie-collins.info/ and http://www.paullewis.co.uk/ There are many acts of kindness that they showed, but I would particularly like to thank Andrew and Paul for granting me access to an invaluable asset: an electronic edition of the Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins which they compiled with their fellow editors William Baker and Graham Law (see Bibliography).
Two other members of Wilkie’s wider family were also unfailingly helpful: Donald Whitton in California and Jeanette Iredale in Australia. They have both helped with documents, photographs and ideas.
I would like to thank the people who read various versions of my text and assisted me with their comments: Katrin Williams, Charlotte Rogers, Sam Hudson, Nigel Cross and Angela Richardson (as well as Paul Lewis and Andrew Gasson). Sue Greenhill’s love and support have kept me going throughout.
Various people have kindly provided me with material from their archives. I am grateful in this context to Susan Hanes, Margaret de Fonblanque, Michael de Navarro and Guy Philipps (Lord Milford).
Any biographer benefits from the input of experts and other interested people at all stages. Among those who have given me excellent information and advice have been Mary Lovell, Judith Flanders, David Higgins, John Pym, Tish Seligman, Nigel Pope, Penny Smyth-Pigott, Kate Barlow, Jane Root, Catherine Wynne, John Pym, William Baker, The Rev. Aidan Platten, Richard Vowles, Richard Lawrence, Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Jonathan Ouvry, Colin Davies and Mary Ellen Lane.
As before, in moments of crisis, Andrew Holmes has generously offered me the benefit of his unrivalled computer knowledge.
This book has involved me spending a great deal of time in libraries and archives. My thanks to various institutions and libraries which have helped me along the way: Bodleian Library (Colin Harris), National Library of Scotland (Rachel Beattie, Donald McClay), British Library (Jamie Andrews), Mitchell Library, Glasgow (Enda Ryan), Huntington Library (Gayle Richardson, Jacqueline Dugas), Morgan Library (Inge Dupont, Carolyn Vega and Maria Molestina), Harry Ransom Center (Molly Schwarzberg, Pat Fox and W. Roger Louis), Firestone Library at Princeton University (Gabriel Swift), University of Toledo (Barbara L. Floyd), University of Cape Town (Tanya Barden and Lesley Hart), Pennsylvania State University Eberly Family Special Collections Library (Sandra Stelts), King’s School Canterbury (Peter Henderson), Getty Research Institute (Jeanette Clough), Canterbury Christ Church University (Carolyn Oulton, Gabrielle Malcolm, Kathy Chaney, Andrew Hudson), Coutts Bank (Tracey Earl), Royal Academy (Mark Pomeroy), Tate Gallery (Adrian Glew), Lincoln’s Inn (Jo Hutchings, Guy Holborn), Yale University (Tim Young), Southampton City Council (Joanne Smith, Penny Rudkin), Portsmouth History Centre (Dr John Stedman), London Library (Helen O’Neill), Garrick Club (Marcus Risdell), Charles Dickens Museum (Fiona Jenkins), Pembroke College Cambridge (Patricia Aske), Royal Academy (Mark Pomeroy), Gloucestershire Archives (Paul Evans), Wellcome Library, National Portrait Gallery, the National Art Library and the National Archives.
I would like to thank the Society of Authors for making me a grant through the Authors’ Foundation, which enabled me to carry out research in some American university libraries.
Two additional websites that have been useful are Andrew Roberts’s magnificent online work on the Lunacy Commission, http://studymore.org.uk/01.htm and the Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/
Working with my editor Sarah Rigby has been both a pleasure and a privilege. My thanks are due too to Jocasta Hamilton, Philippa Cotton and the rest of the team at Hutchinson and Random House. In addition I am very grateful to Jamie Whyte for his map and to Douglas Matthews for compiling an excellent index.
For further information, please refer to my website, www.andrewlycett.co.uk
INDEX
The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.
Works by Wilkie Collins (WC) appear directly under title; works by others under the author’s name
Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), 240
Abbotsford (house), near Melrose, 53, 402
Ä Beckett, Gilbert and Walter, 164
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of, 137
Abode of Love, The (or Agapemone), 196–7, 198, 343, 345
Accademia di San Luca, Rome, 35
Adelphi Theatre, London, 285, 298, 388
After Dark (WC; story collection), 143, 148, 351
Agapemone see Abode of Love
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 133
‘Air and the Audience, The’ (WC; article), 382–3, 388
Albany Street, London, 187
Albert, Prince Consort, 87, 135; statue, 265
Albion, or British, Colonial and Foreign Weekly Gazette, 58
Alexander, George, 388
Alford, Mary, 264
Algeria, SS, 334–5
All Souls (church), Langham Place, 66–7
All the Year Round (journal): WC writes for, 2, 228, 271, 351; Dickens publishes, 188, 191; serialises The Woman in White, 203, 213, 226; Christmas numbers, 204, 214, 221, 228, 244, 271, 282, 362; WC extends contract (1860), 209; competition with Cornhill, 225–6; Lytton writes for, 226; serialises No Name, 228; serialises The Moonstone, 271, 283, 286; and development of psychology and philosophy, 276
/> Allison, Dr Archibald, 18
Allston, Washington, 14–16, 23, 27, 71, 335
Amateurs (theatrical company), 76
American Literary Bureau, New York, 331, 339, 341
Andersen, Hans Christian, 174
Anderson, Mary, 394
animal magnetism, 95–7
Antonina (WC): as romance, 62; writing, 64, 70–1, 74; plot and themes, 74–5; published and reviewed, 77–8; copyright, 133
Antrobus family: rift with Collins family, 64
Antrobus, Edmund, 49–52, 61, 64; The Prison and the School, 50
Antrobus, Sir Edmund (cousin), 51
Antwerp, 307, 360
Archer, Frank, 341, 408
Argosy (journal), 241
Argyll Rooms, London, 151
Armadale, Scotland, 54
Armadale (ship), 255
Armadale (WC): geographical settings, 148–9; writing, 225, 241, 246–7, 256; plot and themes, 246–7, 249, 394; research for, 249–50; serialised in Cornhill, 250, 252; published in two volumes, 263; dedicated to Forster, 265; reviews, 265; theatrical version (as Miss Gwilt), 265, 357, 360; revised for French theatre, 266, 268, 270; as detective story, 273; praised, 321; Smith claims control of, 351
Armytage, Sir George, 253
Arnold, Matthew: ‘Culture and Anarchy’, 302
Art Journal, 69, 127
Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis, 382
Astley’s Theatre, London, 208
Athenaeum Club, 224, 280, 281, 283, 286, 308, 381
Athenaeum (magazine), 42, 77, 107, 131, 235, 238, 244, 317
athleticism: WC satirises, 304, 342, 418
Austen, Jane, 157
Avenue Road, St John’s Wood, London, 39–40, 47, 200
Bad Schwalbach, near Wiesbaden, 47
Baden-Baden, 292
Ballard, James, 190
Balzac, Honoré de, 98, 124, 386; La Comédie Humaine, 124
Bancroft, Squire, 328–9, 332
Baring, Sir Thomas, 24
Bartley, Cecile (Harriet’s daughter), 389
Bartley, Doris Edith (Harriet’s daughter), 373, 389, 415
Bartley, Elizabeth Harriet (Caroline’s daughter): birth and background, 158; and mother’s relations with WC, 177, 186–7, 190, 204, 207–8; and Evangelicals, 202–3; education, 217–18, 250, 259, 262; dines out with WC, 231; holiday in Isle of Man with WC, 241; stays in Italy with WC, 241–2, 246; called ‘Carrie’ by WC, 242; as WC’s amanuensis, 285, 293, 333, 353, 363–4, 368; at Gloucester Place, 314; receives rent from stable letting, 325; calls WC ‘godfather’, 357; unmarried state, 361; visits Paris and Switzerland with WC, 361; marriage, 365; children, 373, 389; death of fourth child, 404; on WC’s stroke, 407; on WC’s death, 408; and WC’s funeral, 409; moves to Kilburn Priory, 415; death, 415
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