Wilkie Collins : the critical heritage

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE page......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 54
From an unsigned review, Spectator, March 1850......Page 56
H.F.CHORLEY, unsigned review, Athenaeum, March 1850......Page 57
From an unsigned review, Bentley\'s Miscellany, April 1850......Page 59
From an unsigned review, Gentleman\'s Magazine, April 1850......Page 60
From an unsigned review, Bentley\'s Miscellany, November 1852......Page 62
D.O.MADDYN, unsigned review, Athenaeum, December 1852......Page 64
CHARLES DICKENS, letter to Collins, December 1852......Page 66
Unsigned review, Dublin University Magazine, January 1853......Page 67
Unsigned review, Westminster Review, October 1853......Page 68
From an unsigned review, Spectator, June 1854......Page 71
GERALDINE JEWSBURY, unsigned review, Athenaeum, June 1854......Page 72
Unsigned review, Leader, June 1854......Page 74
Unsigned review, Bentley\'s Miscellany, July 1854......Page 75
W.M.ROSSETTI, unsigned review, Morning Post, July 1854......Page 77
CHARLES DICKENS, letter to Georgina Hogarth, July 1854......Page 78
MILE FORGUES, article, Revue des deux mondes, November 1855......Page 79
EDMUND YATES, article, Train, June 1857......Page 84
HORACE ST JOHN, from an unsigned review, Athenaeum, June 1857......Page 86
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, August 1857......Page 87
CHARLES DICKENS, letter to Collins, July 1856......Page 90
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, October 1859......Page 91
GEORGE MEREDITH in his letters, January 1860......Page 96
CHARLES DICKENS, letters to Collins, January-July 1860......Page 97
Unsigned review, Morning Advertiser, August 1860......Page 98
Unsigned review, Critic, August 1860......Page 99
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, August 1860......Page 100
Unsigned review, Observer, August 1860......Page 105
Unsigned review, Guardian, August 1860......Page 106
Unsigned review, Spectator, September 1860......Page 109
Unsigned review, The Times, October 1860......Page 112
Unsigned review, Dublin University Magazine, February 1861......Page 121
From an unsigned review, Sixpenny Magazine, September 1861......Page 125
From an unsigned review, Spectator, December 1861......Page 126
MRS OLIPHANT, from an unsigned review, Blackwood\'s Magazine, May 1862......Page 127
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, sketch in Cornhill, August 1862......Page 138
HENRY JAMES, from an unsigned review, Nation, November 1865......Page 139
EDWARD FITZGERALD in his letters, 1867  79......Page 141
Letter to W.F.Pollock, November 1867......Page 142
Letter to Charles Donne, January 1879......Page 143
CHARLES DICKENS, letters, 1862  3......Page 144
Letter to W.H.Wills, January 1862......Page 145
Letter to Collins, September 1862......Page 146
Letter to Collins, October 1862......Page 147
Letter to Collins, January 1863......Page 148
Unsigned review, Reader, January 1863......Page 151
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, January 1863......Page 153
H.L.MANSEL, from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review, April 1863......Page 155
ALEXANDER SMITH, unsigned review, North British Review, February 1863......Page 157
MRS OLIPHANT, unsigned review, Blackwood\'s Magazine, August 1863......Page 160
Unsigned review, London Quarterly Review, October 1866......Page 161
BISHOP THIRLWALL, letters, 1865  6......Page 162
H.F.CHORLEY, unsigned review, Athenaeum, June 1866......Page 163
Unsigned review, Spectator, June 1866......Page 166
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, June 1866......Page 168
Unsigned review, London Quarterly Review, October 1866......Page 173
Unsigned review, Westminster Review, October 1866......Page 175
BRET HARTE, parody from Condensed Novels, 1867......Page 178
CHARLES DICKENS, letters to W.H.Wills, 1867, 1868......Page 186
GERALDINE JEWSBURY, unsigned review, Athenaeum, July 1868......Page 187
Unsigned review, Spectator, July 1868......Page 188
Unsigned review, Nation, September 1868......Page 190
Unsigned review, The Times, October 1868......Page 192
Unsigned review, Harper\'s New Monthly Magazine, October 1868......Page 195
Unsigned review, Lippincott\'s Magazine, December 1868......Page 196
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, July 1870......Page 199
Unsigned review, Putnam\'s Magazine (New York), September 1870......Page 203
MRS OLIPHANT, unsigned review, Blackwood\'s Magazine, November 1870......Page 205
D.E.WILLIAMS, unsigned review, Athenaeum, February 1872......Page 208
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, March 1872......Page 212
From an unsigned review, Nation, March 1872......Page 215
Unsigned review, Canadian Monthly  National Review, May 1872......Page 217
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, March 1875......Page 220
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, January 1877......Page 221
Unsigned review, Saturday Review, August 1879......Page 222
Unsigned review, Spectator, May 1880......Page 224
E.A.DILLWYN, from an unsigned review, Spectator, May 1881......Page 228
Unsigned review, Academy, April 1883......Page 229
?E.D.COOK, unsigned review, Athenaeum, April 1883......Page 231
J.A.NOBLE, from an unsigned review, Spectator, May 1883......Page 233
From an unsigned review, Saturday Review, November 1884......Page 235
JOHN DENNIS, from an unsigned review, Spectator, December 1886......Page 237
J.A.NOBLE, from an unsigned review, Spectator, January 1889......Page 238
From ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Autobiography, 1883......Page 239
J.L.STEWART, article, Rose-Belford\'s Canadian Monthly  National Review, November 1878......Page 241
HARRY QUILTER, article, Contemporary Review, April 1888......Page 246
Unsigned obituary notice, Athenaeum, September 1889......Page 264
M.W.TOWNSEND, unsigned obituary article, Spectator, September 1889......Page 266
A.C.SWINBURNE, article, Fortnightly Review, November 1889......Page 270
ANDREW LANG, article, Contemporary Review, January 1890......Page 281
EDMUND YATES, article, Temple Bar, August 1890......Page 290
W.J.JOHNSTON, article, Irish Monthly, April 1891......Page 295
APPENDIX Wilkie Collins: Principal Works......Page 296
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 298
SELECT INDEX......Page 300