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Wilkie Collins. NYPL.
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As we enter the bicentennial year of
Wilkie Collins' birth, public historian Katherine Hobbs discusses in
Smithsonian Magazine how Collins' legal background informed his novels dealing with the inequities of women's place in Victorian society and criticism that always seemed to put him behind
Charles Dickens, his friend and sometime rival, despite Collins' ground-breaking contributions to detective and sensation fiction.
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