Principal Sources Consulted Main Texts The Letters of Wilkie Collins, 2 vols, eds. William Baker and William M. Clarke (London: Macmillan, 1999). The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters, 4 vols, eds. William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005). The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vols, eds. Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Clarendon Press, 1965–2002). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols, eds. H.C.G. Matthew and others (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the British Academy, 2004). William Baker, Wilkie Collins’ Library: A Reconstruction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002). William M. Clarke, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins (Farr Thrupp, Glouc.: Alan Sutton, 1996). 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Index This index is divided into three sections: (1) works by Wilkie Collins arranged by: Articles/Short Stories/Reviews Novels/ Plays/Collections (2) people – references to family, friends, contemporaries and others (3) places – homes, visits/stays in British Isles/Europe/America, etc. 1. Works by Wilkie Collins [Publication dates, alternative titles, collection republication, and other publication dates are given if not included in the text of A Chronology]: Articles/Short Stories/Reviews ‘The Air and the Audience’, see ‘The Dead Alive’, 165–166 ‘The Use of Gas in Theatres’ ‘The Dead Hand’, 96 ‘The Arts’, 71 ‘The Dead Lock I, Italy …’, 135 ‘Awful Warning to Bachelors’ [review], 98 ‘The Debtor’s Best Friend’, 95 ‘Deep Design on Society’, 97 ‘Bachelor Bedroom’, 105 ‘The Deliverance’, 90 ‘A Batch of Fictions’, 74 ‘The Devil’s Spectacles’, 182 ‘The Black Cottage’, 91 ‘The Diary of Anne Rodway’ ‘Bold Words By a Bachelor’, 90 [‘The Brother Owens Story of ‘Books Necessary for a Liberal Anne Rodway’], 87 Education’, 199 ‘Doctor Dulcamara M.P.’, 102 ‘A Breach of British Privilege’, 103 ‘Double-bedded Room’, 96 ‘Brinsley Norton …’ ‘Douglas Jerrold’, 103 [projected? Peters 140], 68 ‘A Dramatic Author’, 104 ‘The British Artists’, 78 ‘Dramatic Grub Street Explored in ‘Brother Griffith’s Story of Mad Two Letters’, 98 Monkton’, 47 ‘The Dream Woman’, 81–82, 165, ‘Burns. Viewed as a Hat Peg’, 103 168–169, 182 ‘The Duel in Herne Wood’, 177–178 ‘The Captain’s Last Love’, 174–175 ‘The Cauldron of Oil’ [‘Case Worth ‘É.D. Forgues on the Caricaturists of Looking At’], 113 England’, 80 ‘A Clause for the New Reform Bill’ ‘The Exhibition of the Royal [with CD], 101 Academy’, 43 ‘The Clergyman’s Confession’, 171 ‘A Column to Burns’, 103 ‘A Fair Penitent’, 93 ‘Considerations on the Copyright ‘Farmer Fairweather’, 201 Question’ [pamphlet], 184 ‘Fatal Fortune’, 169 ‘The Courier of Lyons’, 71 ‘Fie! Fie! Or the Fair Physician’, 182, ‘The Cruise of the Tomtit’, 81 190 215 216 Index ‘Fine Passages in Verse and Prose’, 205 ‘The Little Huguenot’, 92, 97, 99 ‘The First Officer’s Confession’, ‘Love’s Random Shot’, 182, 192 205–206 ‘The Frozen Deep’ [prose novella], 85 ‘Magnetic Evenings at Home’ ‘M. Forgues and the Caricaturists of [‘Magnetic Letters’], 47–49 England’, 57 ‘A Marriage Tragedy’, 97 ‘Four Novels’, 77 ‘Memoirs of an Adopted Son’, 112 ‘The Fourth Poor Traveller’, 73 ‘Memorandum Relating to the Life and Writings of Wilkie Collins’, ‘Gabriel’s Marriage’ [‘The Nun’s Story 116 of Gabriel’s Marriage’], 57, 78 ‘A Message from the Sea’, 110, 117 ‘Geoffrey Crayon’s New Sketchbook’, ‘The Midnight Mass: An Episode on 76 the History of the Reign of Terror’ ‘The Ghost in the Cupboard’, 106 [translation Balzac], 49–51 ‘The Ghost’s Touch’, 196–197, 203 ‘Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman’, ‘The Girl at the Gate’, 195 171 ‘Give Us Room!’, 97 ‘Miss or Mrs?’, 158 ‘The Great (Forgotten) Invasion’, 103 ‘The Monkton’s of Wincot Abbey’, 47 ‘Mr. Silk Buckingham’ [review], 75 ‘The Haunted House’, 106, 117 ‘Mrs. Badgery’ [reprinted in Novels ‘The Hidden Cash’, 200, 204 and Tales From Household Words. ‘Highly Proper!’, 101 Tauchnitz, 1857 and in Alicia ‘House to Let’ [with CD], 101–102 Warlock, 1875], 95 ‘How I Married Him’, 187 ‘Mrs. Bullwinkle’ [My Miscellanies], 98 ‘How I Write my Books’, 205 ‘My Black Mirror’, 61, 88 ‘My Lady’s Money’, 176–177, 180 ‘The Incredible Not Always ‘My Spinsters’, 88 Impossible’, 50 ‘The Mystery of Marmaduke’, 180 ‘John Steadiman’s (the Chief Mate’s) ‘The National Gallery and the Old Account’, 90 Masters’, 89 ‘A Journey in Search of Nothing’, 95 ‘A National Wrong’ [with J. Payn], 150 ‘A New Book Selling Dodge’, 75 ‘The Lady of Glenwith Grange’, 86 ‘A New Mind’, 102 ‘Laid Up in Two Lodgings. My Paris ‘Nine o’Clock’, 51 Lodging’, 83, 85 ‘No Thoroughfare’, 137–139, 142, 144 ‘The Last Stage Coachman’, 20 ‘The Novels of M. Hendrick ‘The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Conscience’ [review], 80 Apprentices’, 95–96 ‘Les Dimans de la Couronne’, 72 ‘An Old Maid’s Husband’, 202–203 ‘Let at Last’ [with CD], 102 ‘The Ostler’, see ‘The Dream Woman’ ‘[Letter: Errors in Athenaeum review of ‘Over the Way’, 102 The Queen of Hearts]’, 106 ‘Letters about Italy’ [unpublished], ‘Paradoxical Experience’, 101 68 ‘A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino ‘Life of William Etty, R.A.’ [review], Potts’, 46 75 ‘Percy and the Prophet’, 176–177 ‘Literature’ [‘Bentley’s New Publishing ‘A Petition to the Novel-Writers’, 90 Adventure’], 75 ‘Picking up Waifs at Sea’, 115 Index 217 ‘A Pictorial Tour of St. George ‘Talk Stoppers’, 89 Bosherville’, 30, 42 ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’, 50, 163 ‘The Picture Galleries of England; I, ‘Thanks to Dr. Livingstone’ [review], The Earl of Ellesmere’s Collection; 97 II, Northumberland House and ‘Theatres’ [review], 72 Syon House; III, Dulwich Gallery’, ‘To Think or Be Thought For’, 88 [non-fiction], 43–44 ‘Tom Tiddler’s Ground’, 115, 117 ‘Pity a Poor Prince’, 102 ‘[Trollope’s The Warden]’ [review], 76 ‘A Plea for the