'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading "Die Familie" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which "Land und Volk" and "Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft", I reviewed for the Westminster'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Serial / periodical
The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'Train was very full. . . . I was fortified with sandwiches, apples from Brede, some knitting and a
Wilkie Collins novel.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vere Hodgson Print: Book
