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Wilkie Collins was a contemporary and friend of a more famous Victorian writer, Charles Dickens. His fiction was classified at the time as 'Sensation fiction', but was the precursor to detective fiction and horror fiction. 'The Woman in White' is possibly the most famous of his novels and deals effectivley with issues relating the women's roles in Victorian society as well as establishing a fine set of villains and innocent, female victims.
Collins personal life is also of interest. The Wilkie Collins Website
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