orn in London in 1824, Wilkie Collins developed a gift for storytelling while at boarding school. Having initially been apprenticed as a clerk to combines social commentary with a revenge thriller as he attacks the injustice of England's inheritance laws in relation in illegitimacy, and demonstrates the size of the gap between justice and the law.
WILKIE COLLINS 1824-1889
Mar 07, 2023
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