Wilkie Collins
No Name
eBook
( Jan. 6, 2014)
- With biography of Wilkie Collins.
No Name by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round before book publication. Published in 1862 at the peak of Collins's career, one of his four major novels. Dedicated to Francis Carr Beard, his doctor and long standing friend. Following the success of The Woman in White, published a large first edition of 4,000 copies. All but 400 sold by the afternoon of the first day. An early didactic novel, it addresses the theme of illegitimacy. In spite of its popular success many of the critics were scathing about the topic and disapproved of the heroine's near-criminal career. H. L. Mansel of The Quarterly Review wrote, 'We have often heard an illegal connexion and its result euphemistically designated a 'misfortune;' but this is the first time as far as we are aware in which a lawful marriage has been denominated an "accident."' The novel features one of Collins's most dynamic heroines, and one of his most engaging rogues, Captain Wragge.
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not married at the time of their daughters' births, making their daughters "Nobody's Children" in the eyes of English law and robbing them of their inheritance.
No Name by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round before book publication. Published in 1862 at the peak of Collins's career, one of his four major novels. Dedicated to Francis Carr Beard, his doctor and long standing friend. Following the success of The Woman in White, published a large first edition of 4,000 copies. All but 400 sold by the afternoon of the first day. An early didactic novel, it addresses the theme of illegitimacy. In spite of its popular success many of the critics were scathing about the topic and disapproved of the heroine's near-criminal career. H. L. Mansel of The Quarterly Review wrote, 'We have often heard an illegal connexion and its result euphemistically designated a 'misfortune;' but this is the first time as far as we are aware in which a lawful marriage has been denominated an "accident."' The novel features one of Collins's most dynamic heroines, and one of his most engaging rogues, Captain Wragge.
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not married at the time of their daughters' births, making their daughters "Nobody's Children" in the eyes of English law and robbing them of their inheritance.
- Pages
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