After Dickens’s death, Collins’s novels immediately became more belligerent.
Authors Wilkie Collins
Elliott and Fry
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He possesses in eminent degree that power which at once rarest and most necessary to a novelist, the faculty of imaginative design without extravagance of execution.
Sue Lonoff
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Still, in his own fashion, Collins did manage to get to the top of the mountain. The fact that his work could be imitated says something about his fidelity to a strain of human experience, and about his method of describing that experience, which is plainspoken and radically inclusive.
The Woman in White
The Moonstone