AQA (A): Independent critical study, recommended text
In his own day Wilkie Collins (1824–89) was talked up by his publisher as the ‘King of Inventors’ and damned with faint praise by the critics as a technically brilliant literary craftsman. One typical contemporary review of his cracking thriller The Woman in White (1859–60) referred to him as:
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