• The Collins family were deeply religious, and Collins's mother enforced strict church attendance on her sons, which Wilkie disliked.[4].
  • His father was the well-known landscape and portrait painter, William Collins. Collins’s name “Wilkie” comes from his godfather, Sir David Wilkie.
  • Wilkie Collins was born in London into an artistic family. His father was William Collins, a well-known landscape painter and a full member of the Royal Academy.
  • Wilkie Collins combined the romantic and the realistic in his mystery stories and provided a model for subsequent suspense and mystery fiction.
  • William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years.
  • In 1850 the renowned Victorian author Wilkie Collins visited our area with his artist friend Henry Brandling. ... Collins describes it in his book
  • The Wilkie Collins Pages by Paul Lewis ~.
  • They range from interviews with Wilkie Collins and recollections by people who knew him to modern studies of his life, family, and finances.
  • Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins was born in London, England on January 8, 1824 the son of a respected landscape painter, and was named after David Wilkie...
  • Wilkie Collins was an English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction.