Author Wilkie Collins lived here


Author Wilkie Collins lived here

Wilkie Collins, celebrated Victorian fiction author, lived here.

Location: 90 Gloucester Place (now 65), W1U

Description: Victorian fiction author Wilkie Collins lived here in the 19th Century. He wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and more than 100 non-fiction pieces.

He was a close friend of Charles Dickens and was one of the biggest authors and celebrities of his time. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens's bloomed.

For more information and to find our more about this great man - please visit these valuable information sources which outline details before and after 1848:
http://www.wilkie-collins.info/wilkie_collins_lived.htm & http://www.wilkiecollins.com/

Tours: Charles Dickens' London

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Author Wilkie Collins lived here

Wilkie Collins, celebrated Victorian fiction author, lived here.

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