Author:William Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins
(1824–1889)

William Wilkie Collins

Scans

Works

Novels

• After Dark (1856) (Pseudo novel; short stories)
• The Woman in White (1860)
• No Name (1862)
• Armadale (1866)
• The Moonstone , 1874 US edition (1868)
• The Legacy of Cain (1889)

• Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• Antonina (1850)
• Basil (1850)
• Mr. Wray's Cash Box (1852)
• Hide and Seek (1854)
• The Dead Secret (1856)
• Man and Wife (1870) (see review in The Overland Monthly)
• Poor Miss French (1872)
• Miss or Mrs? (1873)
• The New Magdalen (1873)
• The Law and the Lady (1875)
• The Two Destinies (1876)
• The Haunted Hotel (1878)
• The Fallen Leaves (1879)
• A Rogue's Life (1879)
• My Lady's Money (1879)
• Jezebel's Daughter (1880)
• The Black Robe (1881)
• Heart and Science (1883)
• I Say No (1884)
• The Evil Genius (1886)
• The Guilty River (1886)
• Blind Love (1889)

Short stories

Collections

• After Dark (1856) (Pseudo novel)
  • After Dark
  • The Traveler's Story of "A Terribly Strange Bed"
  • The Lawyer's Story of "A Stolen Letter"
  • The French Governess's Story of "Sister Rose"
  • The Nun's Story of "Gabriel's Marriage"
  • The Professor's Story of "The Yellow Mask"

• The Queen of Hearts (1859)
  • Brother Owen's Story of The Black Cottage
  • Brother Griffith's Story of The Family Secret
  • Brother Morgan's Story of The Dream Woman ^[1]
  • Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton
  • Brother Morgan's Story of The Dead Hand
  • Brother Griffith's Story of The Biter Bit
  • Brother Owen's Story of The Parson's Scruple
  • Brother Griffith's Story of A Plot in Private Life
  • Brother Morgan's Story of Fauntleroy
  • Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway

• Little Novels (1887)
  • Mrs. Zant and the Ghost [Volume I]
  • Miss Morris and the Stranger
  • Mr. Cosway and the Landlady
  • Mr. Medhurst and the Princess
  • Mr. Lismore and the Widow
  • Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman [Volume II]
  • Miss Mina and the Groom
  • Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper
  • Mr. Captain and the Nymph
  • Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister
  • Mr. Percy and the Prophet [Volume III]
  • Miss Bertha and the Yankee
  • Miss Dulane and My Lord
  • Mr. Policeman and the Cook

• The Frozen Deep and Other Tales (1874)
  • The Frozen Deep (1857)
  • The Dream Woman
  • John Jago's Ghost, or, The Dead Alive

Individual short stories

• "Dream Women" (1855) (novella. Originally published as a short story in Household Words in 1855 as "The Ostler")
  • "The Dream Woman" in Weird Tales, 9 (1) (January 1927)
• "A Fair Penitent"
• "The Girl at the Gate," English Illustrated, 1885 novelette
• "A House to Let" (1858)
• "Mr. Lismore and the Widow" (included in Little Novels, 1887)
• "Major Namby," Short Stories, 1892
• "The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed" a.k.a. "A Terribly Strange Bed" (1852)

Contributions to the DNB

• Collins, Charles Allston
• Mitch, Richard

Works about Collins

• "Wilkie Collins," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "Collins, William Wilkie," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Collins, William Wilkie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Collins, William Wilkie," in Men-at-the-Bar (v. 2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Collins, William Wilkie," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)

Notes

1. (First published in a slightly different form as "The Ostler" in Household Words Christmas 1855. Republished in expanded versions as 'The Dream Woman: A Mystery in Four Narratives' in The Frozen Deep and Other Tales, London 1874 and as the title story in Alicia Warlock, (A Mystery) and Other Stories, Boston 1875.)