William Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. He is the son of a famous painter William Collins (1788-1847). His father was a religious person who was disappointed in the nature of his son's free thought. Please enter the law. When his father died, Collins was 22 years old, and now he is determined to become a professional writer.

Landscape painter William Collins The eldest son of RA, Wilkie Collins, was born in Marylebone, London in 1818. He is from an artist. His brother, Charles Alston Collins, is a member of a former fellow Raffaello member, especially John Everett Milles and Holman Hunt's best friend. He was not a regular member, but he exhibited 12 photos at the Royal College of Art and has lived through painting for many years. Wilkie Collins received education at a private school in London for several years and when his family moved to Italy, he was 13 years old and received real education here. He opposed the strict religious norms and conservative values ​​of his father, refused the tea industry and lawyers' lives, he insisted on writing. His first book was his father's biography, published in 1848.

Wilkie Collins was born as a family of popular landscape artist William Collins R.A. Phillip V. Arlingham called Wilkie Collins in his article "Inventor of Fiction". He studied the law at the Lincoln hotel in London, but he never practiced and put his career in literature. In 1851, he first met Charles Dickens (his father William Collins) who became a very close friend until Dickens died in 1870. According to Allingham, he is still very closely related, he is called "Dickensian Ampersand". 'Collins writes 25 novels and over 50 short stories. More than 100 non-fiction works. "This is the most famous and favorite, once used to be one of the best rewards for Victorian novelist" (Allingham)