"The Author of 'No Name,' 'The Woman in White,' &c." — Portrait of Wilkie Collins for "Harper's Weekly," 22 March 1862 (page 189)

The Author of “No Name,” “The Woman in White,” &c.

Portrait re-engraved for volume publication.

John McLenan

22 March 1862

Wood engraving

19 cm by 11.4 cm, or 7 ½ inches by 4 ½ inches, framed

Wilkie Collins's No Name

Harper's Weekly Magazine, Vol. VI (22 March 1862): 189.

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Passage Complemented: Wilkie Collins, Esqu.

In connection with the commencement of Mr. WILKIE COLLINS’S "NO Name," we publish here the portrait of this distinguished man.

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS was born in London in 1824. His father was a painter, who went to Italy shortly afteer his son’s birth, and remained there till the latter had reached manhood. Mr. Wilkie Collins’s first work, “ANTONINA,” which was published in 1850, revealed his remarkable genius; but the subject was ill chosen, and the book did not meet with great success. His later NOVELS, especially the “WOMAN IN WHITE,” published in Harper's Weekly, have placed him in the first rank of contemporaneous Novel writers.

Mr. Collins is allied to the family of Mr. Charles Dickens. [Headpiece for Chapter III, “The First Scene. Combe-Raven, Somersetshire,” facing title-page in volume; in the American serial, 189]

Related Material

Bibliography

Blain, Virginia. “Introduction” and “Explanatory Notes” to Wilkie Collins's No Name. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Collins, William Wilkie. No Name . Illustrated by John Mclenan. Harper's Weekly, Vol. VI. 15 March 1862-17 January 1863.

Collins, Wilkie. No Name. [cheap edition]. London: Sampson & Low, 1864.

Collins, William Wilkie. No Name. Illustrated by John Mclenan. New York: Harper & Bros., 1873.

Collins, William Wilkie. No Name. Illustrated by John Mclenan. New York: Dover Publications, 1978.

Vann, J. Don. "No Name in All the Year Round, 15 March 1862-17 January 1863." Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: Modern Language Association, 1985. 47.

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