Miss Dulane and My Lord ('An Old Maid's Husband')
()
About this ebook
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.
Read more from Wilkie Collins
No Name Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens: An Account of the Strange Events of the Medusa Murders Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Queen of Hearts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman in White Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hide And Seek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Law and the Lady Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dons and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Black Robe Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Haunted Hotel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGothic Classics: 60+ Books in One Volume Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dead Secret: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA House to Let Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBasil Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5TRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers: Horror Classics, Mysterious Cases, Gothic Novels, Monster Tales & Supernatural Stories: Sweeney Todd, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, From Beyond… Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (Book Center) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 5 (Dream Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClassic Mystery Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Name Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Miss Dulane and My Lord ('An Old Maid's Husband')
Related ebooks
Fie! Fie! Or, The Fair Physician Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSome novels – Volume 7 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Cosway and the Landlady ('Your Money or Your Life') Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Medhurst and the Princess ('Royal Love') Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Law and the Lady Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHer Ladyship's Elephant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColeshanger: A humorous recollection of English village life at the turn of the last century. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDavid Copperfield Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRun To Earth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohnny Ludlow - Fourth Series: 'We despise what we have, and covet that which we cannot get'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPride and Prejudice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dinner at Poplar Walk by Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Two Destinies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFather Stafford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKenelm Chillingly — Volume 06 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollections and Recollections Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMilady in Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Bertha and the Yankee ('The Duel in Herne Wood') Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Imposters: “I dream in fire but work in clay.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDouble Harness (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHard Times Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Betjeman: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Robe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mark of the Beast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDouble Harness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptains Courageous - A Story of the Grand Banks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDenry the Audacious Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man and Wife Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventure of the Illustrious Client - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Historical Mystery For You
The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Watchmaker's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Under a Red Moon: A 1920s Bangalore Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word Is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Courting Dragons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untitled Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speaks the Nightbird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things in Jars: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tread of Angels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Crooked Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Line to Kill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume One: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Guardian of Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman on Fire: A Mystery Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl from Rawblood: A Gothic Horror Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spider's Web Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cater Street Hangman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder for Christmas: A British Holiday Murder Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Miss Dulane and My Lord ('An Old Maid's Husband')
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Miss Dulane and My Lord ('An Old Maid's Husband') - Wilkie Collins
Miss Dulane and My Lord
(‘An Old Maid’s Husband’)
BY
WILKIE COLLINS
Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Contents
Wilkie Collins
PART I. TWO REMONSTRATIONS.
I.
II.
PART II. PLATONIC MARRIAGE.
III.
IV.
V.
PART III. NEWS FROM THE COLONY.
VI.
PART IV. THE NIGHT NURSE.
VII.
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was born in Marylebone, London in 1824. His family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Collins later recalled that in Italy he learned more which has been of use to me, among the scenery, the pictures, and the people, than I ever learned at school.
Returning to England, Collins attended Cole’s boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand.
In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practiced. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to good reviews. This was followed by an historical novel, Antonina (1850) and three contemporary novels, Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854) and The Dead Secret (1857). During the 1850s, however, Collins’ main source of income came through journalism. Primarily, he wrote for Household Words, a publication owned and ran by Charles Dickens, with whom Collins had a close friendship. It was also during this decade that Collins began to take large amounts of opium to combat ‘rheumatic gout’, a form of arthritis he suffered from.
The 1860s saw Collins’ creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). These were all hugely popular; The Woman in White, for example, ran to seven editions in the first year of publication, and is now regarded as the archetypal sensation novel. The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel – T. S. Eliot called it the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels...in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe.
During the last two decades of his life, Collins’ popularity waned. This was due in part to the death of Dickens, and in part to his increasing dependence on opium. It also had a lot to do with his stylistic shift away from the sensational thrillers that his