| 31. | Wilkie Collins'epistolary novel " locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction.
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| 32. | The success of Dickens'book prompted Christmas books by William Makepeace Thackeray, Hans Christian Andersen, Wilkie Collins and Horatio Alger.
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| 33. | A mix of influences is evident to reviewers : Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Wilkie Collins, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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| 34. | A member of the circle of friends that included Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Egg features in their surviving correspondence.
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| 35. | The novel is set in 19th-century England, influenced by Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Bront? with hints of Victorian gothic.
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| 36. | Wilkie Collins dictated the last part of ( beginitalic ) The Moonstone ( enditalic ) under the effects of opium.
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| 37. | Her first husband was the artist and author Charles Allston Collins, younger brother of Wilkie Collins; they married in 1860.
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| 38. | He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.
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| 39. | Wilkie Collins reviewed it scathingly, declaring that " The characters by whose aid the story is worked out, are simply impossible.
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| 40. | The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.
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