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A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a...

John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea. The result was this...

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and...

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of...

A vivid satire on a dissolute society, Roxana is a devastating evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the...

The Great Plague swept through London in 1665, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe vividly...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe,...

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe,...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His novels are often as concerned with social...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White...

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of...

Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery...

The Haunted House it is a collection of tales, with Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White...

In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts....

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859),...

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This is the story about The girl named Mary -...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White...

The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating...

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage...

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the...

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this novel of relationships, psychological...