Wilkie Collins’s Armadale

My Brothers the Dogs

Music on the Water

The Wife’s Question

Pedoift at Fault

The End of the Elopement

Thanks to the Thunder

The Sop to Cerberus

Allan’s Neighbour

The Moth and the Candle

A Client for Mr Pedoift

The Resident Gentry

Miss Gwilt

The Major’s Clock

Father and Son

The Tempting Moment

The Cabin Door

One too Many

The two Armadales

Miss Gwilt and the Gorgons

Force and Cunning

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Wilkie (William) Collins was born on the 08^th of January 1824 at 11 New Cavendish Street, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, and died on the 23^rd of September 1889 in Wimpole Street, London. The successful author wrote popular, so-called ‘sensation novels’ such as The Woman in White, which was first serialised in Charles Dickens’ magazine All Year Round 1859-60 and then published in book-form in 1860, and The Moonstone which was also at first issued in instalments in All Year Round before being sold in book-form (1868).

Armadale was initially serialised in the Cornhill Magazine between November 1864 and June 1866 before being available in the bookshops. Collins received a generous commission of £5,000 for his story from the proprietor of Cornhill Magazine, George Murray Smith (1824-1901). The Illustrator, painter and wood-engraver George Housman Thomas (1824-1868) created the illustrations.