Paliography
John Sutherland, 15 September 1988
The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins
by William Clarke.
Allison and Busby, 239 pp., £14.95, August 1988,0 85031 960 9 Show More
by William Clarke.
Allison and Busby, 239 pp., £14.95, August 1988,
Wilkie Collins: Women, Property and Propriety
by Philip O’Neill.
Macmillan, 238 pp., £27.50, September 1988,9780333421994 Show More
by Philip O’Neill.
Macmillan, 238 pp., £27.50, September 1988,
“... a prurient interest in Jeffrey Archer’s spotty back and T.S. Eliot’s rupture truss (to which Stephen Spender enigmatically refers) mingles with a pious desire to be as well-informed as possible. On the whole, I’m not entirely sorry to be led from temptation by Jones’s obedient vandalism or Valerie Eliot’s stonewall around her husband’s life. At ... ”