The Wilkie Collins Society
Chairman Andrew Gasson
Membership Paul Lewis
Patrons Faith Clarke;
Baroness James of Holland Park (P D James)
PUBLICATIONS LIST
January 2009
The Wilkie Collins Society – founded in 1981 - promotes interest
in the life and work of the Victorian writer Wilkie Collins. The
Society issues three newsletters a year, publishes an annual
academic journal, and each year it reprints at least one his
shorter works which is otherwise almost impossible to find. It
also organises occasional walks, talks, and film shows. You can
join the worldwide membership of the Society by ticking the box
on page 3 of the publications order form inserted in this
booklet.
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Reprints
The Wilkie Collins Society reprints work by Wilkie Collins which have
never been published or have remained unpublished since the 19th
century. Each contains the original text together with an introduction and
bibliographic information about its first publication.
Volpurno: or The Student by Wilkie Collins
Edited and introduced by Paul Lewis.
February 2009. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5
This story has recently been identified in an American newspaper in July
1843. That makes it the earliest known published work of Wilkie Collins.
‘The New Dragon of Wantley: A Social Revelation’ A Lost Tale By
Wilkie Collins.
Edited and introduced by Professor Graham Law. November 2007.
Limited edition of 300 copies. A5 24pp.
This pamphlet reproduces a hitherto unidentified story by Wilkie Collins
originally published in The Leader 20 December 1851. Professor Law also
uses new evidence to produce the most complete and accurate list yet of
Collins’s contributions to The Leader.
How I write my Books: Related in a Letter to a Friend.
Ed. Andrew Gasson and Paul Lewis. July 2007. Limited edition of 300
copies. A5 8pp.
Collins’s own explanation of how he creates the plot and turns it into a
story. First published 26 November 1887.
Wilkie Collins and the Dinner at the Society of Authors. Ed. Andrew
Gasson and Paul Lewis. March 2007. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5
12pp.
This pamphlet reproduces the dinner menu, seating plan and order of
proceedings for the Dinner to American Men & Women of Letters on 25
July 1888 with a commentary and contextual notes.
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Wilkie Collins by George Makepeace Towle.
Ed. Andrew Gasson. August 2006. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5
8pp.
This short biography was originally published in Appleton’s Journal of
Popular Literature, Science, and Art 3 September 1870. It contains
several autobiographical quotes from Collins himself.
Household Words – Non-fiction by Wilkie Collins part II
A Shy Scheme, Awful Warning to Bachelors, Sea-breezes with the
London Smack.
Ed Paul Lewis. August 2006. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5 24pp.
Reprints three more of Wilkie’s non-fiction contributions to Dickens’s
weekly Household Words.
Household Words – Non-fiction by Wilkie Collins part I
Strike!, Highly Proper!, A Breach of British Privilege.
Ed Paul Lewis. April 2006. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5 24pp.
Reprints three of Wilkie’s non-fiction contributions to Dickens’s weekly
Household Words.
The Widows – unpublished sketches for two plays concerning marriage
law. Edited by Andrew Gasson and Graham Law. September 2005.
Limited edition of 300 copies. A5 20pp.
Reprints in facsimile and text two different versions of sketches for plays
found in Texas and Lancashire.
A National Wrong by James Payn and Wilkie Collins.
Ed. Graham Law, Andrew Gasson, Paul Lewis. July 2004. Limited
edition of 300 copies. A5 20pp.
A reprint of a piece originally published on 12 February 1870 in
Chambers’ Journal about Wilkie's copyright dispute with the Dutch
publishers Belinfante Brothers. Includes a commentary on the case and
the development of international copyright law by Professor Graham Law.
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The Cruise of the Tomtit.
Ed. Paul Lewis. April 2003. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5 20pp.
A reprint of one of Wilkie's longer and lighter pieces of non-fiction from
Household Words. Includes full footnotes.
The Victims of Circumstances Discovered in the Records of Old Trials
Ed. Graham Law. June 2002. Limited edition of 300 copies, A5 20pp.
The first complete edition of this work which includes the third story not
published since 1887.
Magnetic Evenings at Home
Ed. Paul Lewis. August 2001. Limited edition of 250 copies, A4, 28pp.
An account of mesmerism and clairvoyance with a reply by G.H.Lewes.
Originally published in The Leader January-April 1852.
A Novelist on Novel Writing
Ed. Andrew Gasson. March 2001. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5,
12pp.
A recently discovered interview with Wilkie Collins revealing that
Armadale was his own favourite among his works. Originally published in
Cassell’s Saturday Journal 5 March 1887.
A Plea for Sunday Reform
Ed. Paul Lewis. July 2000.Limited edition of 300 copies. A5, 12pp.
An early polemical essay calling for art galleries and museums to open on
Sundays. Originally published in The Leader 27 September 1851.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy
Ed. Paul Lewis. March 1999.Limited edition of 300 copies. A5, 16pp.
A perceptive and entertaining account of the RA’s Summer art exhibition.
Originally published in Bentley’s Miscellany June 1851.
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Considerations on the Copyright Question Addressed to an American
Friend
Ed. Andrew Gasson. November 1997. Limited edition of 300 copies.
A5, 20pp.
A diatribe against the lack of copyright protection in the United States of
America for works by foreign authors. Originally published as a pamphlet
in 1880.
A Pictorial Tour to St. George Bosherville
Ed. Paul Lewis. November 1996. Limited edition of 300 copies. A5,
28pp.
A comic account of a painting trip in France. Originally published in
Bentley’s Miscellany May 1851.
A Little Fable
Ed. Andrew Gasson. July 1996. Out of print – photocopies only.
A copy and transcript of a previously unpublished manuscript from the
early 1880s. Similar to part of Heart and Science. Last few copies for
sale.
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Miscellaneous
Overture to The Frozen Deep by Francesco Berger performed on the
piano by Vyvian Bronk. CD With an illustrated introduction by Andrew
Gasson. May 2008. Published in May 2008 in association with the
Dickens Fellowship.
Until its discovery and performance early in 2008 this overture had not
been heard since 1857.
Rambles Around Marylebone by William M. Clarke 1994. A5 pamphlet,
12pp. Signed by the author. An account of houses Wilkie lived in with a
map and route to see them. With updated information sheet from the
Summer 2006 Wilkie Collins Society walk.
Postcard – Portrait of Wilkie Collins by his friend John Everett Millais,
1851. National Portrait Gallery reproduction.
Badge – The Wilkie Collins Society badge is a small enamel version of
Wilkie’s monogram in black and silver, now used as the logo of the
Society
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Wilkie
Collins
Society
Journal
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New
Series
Edited by Professor Graham Law and Professor Lillian Nayder, the Journal
publishes peer reviewed academic papers relating to the work and life of
Wilkie Collins. There was no WCSJ in 2008.
2007 vol.10
Natalie B. Cole, “A Bed Abroad”: Travel Lodgings and the “Apartment
House Plot” in Little Dorrit and The Haunted Hotel
Mariaconcetta Costantini, A Land of Angels with Stilettos: Travel
Experiences and Literary Representations of Italy in Wilkie Collins
William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, Paul Lewis The Collected
Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and Corrigenda (3)
Reviews of:
A Wilkie Collins Chronology; Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part V:
Vol.2 Wilkie Collins
ed. William Baker & Andrew Gasson
Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays
ed. Andrew Mangham
Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian
Popular Culture
Andrew Mangham
2006 vol.9
Paul Lewis, My Dear Dickens: Reconstructing the Letters from Collins
Graham Law, A Tale of Two Authors: The Shorter Fiction of Gaskell and
Collins
Chris Louttit, From “A Journey in Search of Nothing” to “The Lazy Tour”:
Collins, Dickens, and the “Tyro Do Nothing”
William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, Paul Lewis The Collected
Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and Corrigenda (2)
Reviews of:
Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel by Tamara S. Wagner
Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful
Convictions by Rob Warden
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ed. Maria K. Bachman & Don
Richard Cox
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2005 vol.8
Jessica Cox, Gendered Visions: The Figure of the Prostitute
Aoife Leahy, Ruskin and the Evil of the Raphaelesque in Hide and Seek
Tamara S. Wagner Collins and the Custody Novel: Parental Abduction and
Family Business
William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, Paul Lewis The Collected
Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda and Corrigenda
Reviews of:
Wilkie Collins by Lyn Pykett
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins ed. William Baker, Andrew Gasson,
Graham Law, and Paul Lewis
The White Phantom by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ed. Jennifer Carnell
2004 vol.7
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Mad Scientists and Chemical Ghosts: On
Collins's "materialist supernaturalism"
G. St. John Scott, Parts, Narratives, and Numbers: The Structure of The
Woman in White
Carolyn Oulton, "Never be divided again": Armadale and the Threat to
Romantic Friendship
Angela Richardson, "Dearest Harriet": On Harriet Collins's Italian Journal,
1836-37
Reviews of:
Reality's Dark Light ed. Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox
Victorian Publishing by Alexis Weedon and The Making of the Victorian
Novelist by Bradley Deane
2003 vol.6
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Madame Rachel’s Enamel: Fatal Secrets of
Victorian Sensational Mirrors
Patricia Pulham, Textual/sexual masquerades: Reading the Body in The
Law and the Lady
Andrew Mangham, Hysterical Fictions: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Medical
Constructions of Hysteria and the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Reviews of:
Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein
A Companion to the Victorian Novel by William Baker and Kenneth
Womack
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A Companion to the Victorian Novel ed. Patrick Brantlinger and William B
Thesing
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ed Deidre David
Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England by Carolyn Oulton
Blind Love by Wilkie Collins ed. Maria K Bachman and Don Richard Cox
2002 vol.5
Paul Lewis, My Dear Wilkie: The Letters from Dickens to Collins
Casey A Cothran, "Black and White": British and American versions
Clair Hughes, Lady Audley: The Woman in Colour
Graham Law, Collins and Chattos: The Reading Papers
Reviews of:
Unequal Partners by Lillian Nayder
Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction by Phyllis Weliver
Wilkie Collins's Library by William Baker
2001 vol.4
Emma Liggins, Her resolution to Die: "Wayward Women" and
Constructions of Suicide in Wilkie Collins's Crime Fiction
Natalie Kapetanios, Hunger for Closure in Lady Audley's Secret and
Armadale
Richard S Allbright, "A twisted piece of paper...half-burned upon the
hearthrug": Depictions of Writing in Lady Audley's Secret.
Reviews of:
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine, by Deborah
Wynne
The Fiction of Geopolitics by Christopher GoGwilt
Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press by Graham Law
The Private Rod by Marlene Tromp
Detective Fiction and the Rose of Forensic Science by Ronald R Thomas
2000 vol.3
Steve Dillon, Resurfacing Collins’s “Basil”
Andrew Maunder, Ellen Wood was a Writer: Rediscovering Collins’s Rival
Emma Liggins, Of the Violence of the Working Woman: Collins and
Discourses on Criminality, 1860-1880
Mark Knight, Rethinking Bibliolatry: Wilkie Collins, William Booth and the
Culture of Evangelicalism
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Susan R Hanes, Wilkie Collins and Dorothy L. Sayers
Graham Law, “Poor Fargus”: On Wilkie Collins and “Hugh Conway”
1999 vol.2
Richard Collins, The Ruins of Copán in The Woman in White: Wilkie
Collins and John Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America,
Chiapas, and Yucatan
Simon Cooke, Reading Landscapes: Wilkie Collins, the Pathetic Fallacy
and the Semiotics of the Victorian Wasteland
K A Kale, Could Lydia Gwilt have been happy? A New Reading of
Armadale as Marital Tragedy
Phyllis Weaver, Music and Female Power in Sensation Fiction
Allan W Atlas, Collins, Count Fosco, and the Concertina
Steve Farmer & Graham Law, ‘Belt and Braces’ Serialization: The Case
of Heart and Science
Reviews of:
The Letters of Wilkie Collins by Baker and Clarke,
Ioláni ed. Ira Nadel,
The Moonstone ed. Steve Farmer.
1998 vol.1
Simon Cooke, Action and Attitude: Wilkie Collins and the Language of
Melodramatic Gesture
Catherine Peters, Frances Dickinson: Friend of Wilkie Collins
Carolyn Oulton, Wilkie Collins – An Interpretation of Christian Belief
K A Kale, Yes and No: Problems of Closure in Collins’s “I Say No!”
P D Edwards, Wilkie Collins and Edmund Yates: a Postscript
Graham Law, Materials Relating to Collins in the Watt Collection at
Chapel Hill
Reviews of:
Wilkie Collins by Lillian Nayder
Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Gasson
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Wilkie Collins Society Newsletters
News and information about Wilkie Collins and his family, including
exhibitions, books, adaptations, history, and new discoveries. Normally
8pp or 12pp A5 pamphlets. Some newsletters included a supplement,
normally a 4pp or 8pp A5 pamphlet, now sold separately.
The back issues listed are available but some are in very short supply and
we cannot guarantee availability. Photocopies can be arranged.
Winter 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Winter 2007
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Winter 2006
Summer 2006
Spring 2006 – with The Mystery of The Woman in White in Leicester by
Valerie Pedlar
Winter 2005 – with Wilkie on the Airwaves – Part 1 – BBC by Paul Lewis
Summer 2005
Spring 2005
Winter 2004
Summer 2004
Spring 2004 – with The Wilkie Collins Memorial Library - a Dead Secret by
Andrew Gasson
Winter 2003
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
Winter 2002
Summer 2002
Spring 2002 – with Lunacy on the Isle of Man Wilkie's trip to the Isle of
Man by Paul Lewis
Winter 2001
Summer 2001
Spring 2001
Winter 2000
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Summer 2000
Spring 2000
Winter 1999 – with World Wide Wilkie A guide to Wilkie on the web by
Paul Lewis
Summer 1999 – with ‘Wilkie Collins and Crime Fiction’ by Andrew Gasson,
reprinted from The Strand Magazine vol.I.
Spring 1999 – with Different Worlds by Graham Law, an analysis and
reprint of a piece on Wilkie’s private life deduced from his will, published
in New York, 27 September 1889.
Winter 1998
Summer 1998 – with Wilkie Collins and West Norwood Cemetery by Paul
Graham and Wilkie Collins and his ‘Dear Dutchmen’ – an account of the
Bellinfante Brothers by P J M van Winden
Spring 1998 – with The Preface to the French Edition of The Woman in
White – translation of the preface with a commentary by Paul Lewis.
Winter 1997 – with The Possible Influence of Wilkie Collins on Bram
Stoker by Katherine Haynes
Summer 1997 – with The Narrators in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, by
Hilary Newman and An Analysis of the Handwriting of Wilkie Collins by
Andrea Lyttleton
Winter/Spring 1997
The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins: Addenda & Corrigenda
Each year the Society publishes a supplement to The Public Face: The
Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins, Pickering & Chatto, London 2005. The
contents are also published in the WCSJ. The book and the supplements
are edited by William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law, & Paul Lewis.
Addenda & Corrigenda (4) 2008
Forty-one new letters. A5 36pp
Addenda & Corrigenda (3) 2007
Sixty new letters. A5 36pp
Addenda & Corrigenda (2) 2006
Eighteen new letters. A5 12pp
Addenda & Corrigenda (1) 2005
Eleven new letters. A5 8pp
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