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Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship

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From: Novel
Date: 20021001
Author:Coleman, Dawn

No Love Story LILLIAN NAYDER, Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), pp. 221, cloth, $35.00.

When Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins met in 1851, Dickens was a 40-year-old international literary superstar and Collins was a 26-year-old fiction writer eager to get on in the world. Between 1852 and 1856, Collins published over a dozen pieces in Household Words and, when he joined the staff in 1856, quickly became Dickens's most valued contributor. The next five years marked the peak of Dickens's and Collins's ...

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