What Wilkie Wrote
 
 
 

During his life Wilkie Collins published 23 novels (defined here as a single work of fiction published separately as a single book, sometimes in more than one volume), six collections of stories (defined as a single book containing more than one work of fiction, sometimes in more than one volume), one collection of essays, one travel book, and one biography. He also published numerous short stories which were not published in books in his lifetime, at least one translation from French, more than a dozen plays - some original and some adapted from his other work - and more than 100 articles in periodicals. One further novel was completed by Walter Besant and published after his death; another, the first he wrote, came to light in 1989. Not all his work has been identified.

This bibliography lists the first publication in book form in England of works by Wilkie Collins. It excludes plays, North American and other foreign editions. It also excludes the separately published Christmas editions of Household Words and All The Year Round to which Collins contributed. Many of Collins's stories were published and republished in the USA - sometimes with alternative titles - and by Tauchnitz in Leipzig. None of these variants is listed here. Numerous foreign language editions were published under a variety of titles, some bearing no relation to the English title.
 

TITLES:

Antonina; or, the Fall of Rome
 Novel Richard Bentley
3 vols 1850 27 Feb 1850 None



Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot
 Travel Essays Richard Bentley
1 vol 1851 30 Jan 1851 None


Mr Wray's Cash-Box; or, the Mask and the Mystery
 Novel Richard Bentley
1 vol 1852 13 Dec 1851 None


Basil: A story of Modern Life (1)   Novel Richard Bentley
3 vols 1852 16 Nov 1852 None


Hide and Seek (2)   Novel Richard Bentley
3 vols 1854 6 Jun 1854 None


After Dark   Stories Smith, Elder and Co
2 vols 1856 14 Feb 1856 Household Words 24 April 1852-24 July 1855 plus one original story and original linking narrative


'Leaves from Leah's Diary'
The Dead Secret
 Novel Bradbury & Evans
2 vols 1857 1 Jun 1857 Household Words 3 Jan-13 June 1857


The Queen of Hearts   Stories Hurst and Blackett
3 vols 1859 1 Oct 1859 Fraser's Magazine Nov 1855; Household Words Christmas 1855-1 Jan 1859; National Magazine Nov 1856; Harper's New Monthly Magazine Feb 1857-Feb 1858; Atlantic Monthly April 1858; plus original linking narrative.


The Woman in White   Novel Sampson Low, Son, & Co
3 vols 1860 14 Aug 1860 All the Year Round 26 Nov 1859-25 August 1860
No Name   Novel Sampson Low, Son, & Co
3 vols 1862 14 Dec 1852 All the Year Round 15 March 1862-17 Jan 1863


My Miscellanies   Essays Sampson Low, Son, & Co
2 vols 1863 15 Oct 1863 Household Words 7 June 1856-12 March 1859, All the Year Round 4 June 1859-11 May 1861
Armadale   Novel Smith, Elder and Co
2 vols 1866 15 May 1866 The Cornhill Magazine Nov 1864-June 1866


The Moonstone. A Romance   Novel Tinsley Brothers
3 vols 1868 1 Jul 1868 All the Year Round 4 Jan-8 Aug 1868


Man and Wife. A Novel   Novel F. S. Ellis
3 vols 1870 15 Jun 1870 Cassell's Magazine Nov/Dec 1869-July/Sept 1870 (8)


Poor Miss Finch. A Novel   Novel Richard Bentley and Son
3 vols 1872 1 Feb 1872 Cassell's Magazine New Series 2 Sept 1871-24 Feb 1872 (8)


Miss or Mrs.? and other Stories in Outline (4)   Stories Richard Bentley and Son
1 vol 1873 17 Jan 1873 The Graphic Christmas 1871. All The Year Round Christmas 1859, 1861;


The New Magdalen. A Novel   Novel Richard Bentley and Son
2 vols 1873 2 Jun 1873 Temple Bar Oct 1872-July 1873


The Frozen Deep and Other Stories (5)   Stories Richard Bentley and Son
2 vols 1874 18 Nov 1874 Temple Bar Aug-Oct 1974; Household Words Christmas 1855 (much amended); The Home Journal 1873


The Law & the Lady: A Novel   Novel Chatto and Windus
3 vols 1875 1 Mar 1875 The Graphic 26 Sept 1874-13 March 1875


The Two Destinies: A Romance   Novel Chatto and Windus
2 vols 1876 16 Aug 1876 Temple Bar Jan-Sept 1876


The Haunted Hotel: a Mystery of Modern Venice; also includes My Lady's Money   Stories Chatto and Windus
2 vols 1879 1 Nov 1878 Belgravia June-Nov 1878; Illustrated London News Christmas 1877


A Rogue's Life: From his Birth to his Marriage   Novel Richard Bentley and Son
1 vol 1879 1 Apr 1879 Household Words 1-29 March 1856


The Fallen Leaves   Novel Chatto and Windus
3 vols 1879 1 Jul 1879 The World 1 Jan -23 Jul 1879


Jezebel's Daughter   Novel Chatto & Windus
3 vols 1880 1 Apr 1880 Bolton Weekly Journal 13 Sept 1879-31 Jan 1880 (7)


The Black Robe   Novel Chatto & Windus
3 vols 1881 1 Apr 1881 Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 2 Oct 1880-26 Mar 1881(7)


Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time   Novel Chatto & Windus
3 vols 1883 16 May 1883 Belgravia Magazine Aug 1882-June 1883


"I Say No"   Novel Chatto & Windus
3 vols 1884 15 Nov 1884 London Society Jan-Dec 1884


The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story   Novel Chatto and Windus
3 vols 1886 1 Sep 1886 Leigh Journal and Times 11 Dec 1885-30 Apr 1886 (7)


The Guilty River   Novel J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London
1 vol 1886 Dec 1886 -


Little Novels   Stories Chatto and Windus
3 vols 1887 16 Apr 1887 Canadian Monthly Aug,Sept 1875, Belgravia Jan 1877, All The Year Round Summer Extra 1877, Spirit of the Times 22 Dec 1877, 25 Dec 1880, 22 Dec 1883; Belgravia Annual 1878, 1881, 1882, 1887; Temple Bar Jan 1879; Longman's Magazine Christmas 1884; English Illustrated Magazine Jan-Feb 1885, Jan 1886; Harper's Weekly 23 October 1885.


The Legacy of Cain   Novel Chatto & Windus
3 vols 1889 16 Nov 1888 Leigh Journal and Times 17 Feb-29 Jun 1888


 

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