The King of Inventors

Drawing on an unknown autobiography by Wilkie Collins's mother and thousands of Collins's unpublished letters, Catherine Peters lifts the veil of mystery surrounding the writer and provides a case study in the double standards and dark side of Victorian morals.
This edition includes a new section about 'Iolani', the 'Tahitan' novel – a manuscript that disappeared for 150 years before surfacing in the 1990s.

Publisher: Princeton University Press. Reprint
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Princeton
Fine in dustwrapper.


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