He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.

Wilkie Collins

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

* The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins uses a collection of various documents to construct a detective novel in English.

It was not unusual for men and women in Victorian society to have affairs ; Charles Bray, John Chapman, Friedrich Engels, and Wilkie Collins all had affairs, though more discreetly than Lewes and Evans.

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* 1889 – Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright ( b. 1824 )

Le Fanu published many novels in the contemporary sensation fiction style of Wilkie Collins and others:

Other books on Le Fanu include Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others ( 1931 ) by S. M. Ellis, Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1951 ) by Nelson Browne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1971 ) by Michael H. Begnal, Sheridan Le Fanu ( third edition, 1997 ) by W. J. McCormack, Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness ( 2004 ) by Victor Sage and Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J. S. Le Fanu ( 2007 ) by James Walton.

* September 23 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist ( b. 1824 )

* January 8 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist ( d. 1889 )

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

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Perhaps the earliest reference to the concept comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: " I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence — the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace ".

Despite the rhetorical distaste all serial authors used the cliffhanger and Wilkie Collins is famous for saying about the technique: " Make ' em cry, make ' em laugh, make ' em wait – exactly in that order.

There is some evidence that the English writers Wilkie Collins and Christina Rossetti were also enthusiasts.

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, while The Moonstone ( 1868 ) is often thought to be his masterpiece.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

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There is an account of its setting and start as a holiday resort in the 4th scene of Wilkie Collins ' novel No Name.

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The house and estate had literary and artistic connections: James had purchased it in 1824 from Perry Nursey, the landscape painter and teacher of Thomas Churchyard ; Nursey had often entertained David Wilkie RA at Little Bealings, and was friends with Edward Fitzgerald, translator of The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam.

* 1841 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( b. 1785 )

* 1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player

* 1954 – David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer

* 1785 – Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter ( d. 1841 )

* June 1 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( b. 1785 )

* November 18 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist ( d. 1841 )

* David Wilkie ( 1785 – 1841 )

* Sir David Wilkie ( artist ) ( 1785 – 1841 ), Scottish painter

* Sir David Wilkie ( surgeon ) ( 1882 – 1938 ), British surgeon, scientist and philanthropist

* David Wilkie ( taxicab driver ), killed during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 )

Sir David Wilkie ( 18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841 ) was a Scottish painter.

On his return to England Wilkie completed the Reception of the King at the Entrance of Holyrood Palace – a curious example of a union of his earlier and later styles, a " mixture " which was very justly pronounced by Haydon to be " like oil and water ".

Scotland produced two influential genre painters, David Allan ( 1744 – 96 ) and Sir David Wilkie ( 1785 – 1841 ).

Interior with Portraits, 1865, Smithsonian Museum of American ArtThe first true genre painter in the United States was German immigrant John Lewis Krimmel, who learning from Wilkie and Hogarth, produced gently humorous scenes of life in Philadelphia from 1812 – 21.

* Sir David Wilkie – Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau

* Gold medal – 200 m breaststroke ( world record 2: 14. 77, breaking the old record of 2: 15. 11 set by David Wilkie in 1976 )

Unfortunately Wilkie was forced to step down during the 1991 – 1992 due to health problems.