Ward, Frank (Charles’s son), 340–1
Ward, George Raphael (Henrietta’s father), 66
Ward, Henrietta (née Ward; Ned’s wife): marriage, 66–8, 70, 314; painting, 66, 256; WC’s mother advises against combining career and family, 73; attends theatrical first night, 87; moves to Slough, 110; and WC’s travelling in country, 223; attends staging of Man and Wife, 328; and Ned’s death, 372; proposes writing book on husband, 372
Ward, Jane (née Carpenter; WC’s cousin): courtship and marriage to Charles, 63; and Henrietta’s marriage to Ned, 67; attends Millais-Effie wedding, 142; invites WC for Christmas (1858), 186
Ward, Leslie (‘Spy’), 208, 219, 321
Ward, Wriothesley, 372
Washington, DC, 339
Waters, Sarah, 420
Watkins, Herbert (photographer), 174
Watson, Ellen, 415
Watt, A.P. (Alexander), 382, 396, 402, 406–7, 409
Watts, Alaric A., 70
Waugh, Edith, 324
Waugh, Colonel William Petrie, 141
Webster, Benjamin, 142, 283
Weldon, Georgina, 332
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 87; death, 125
Wells, Mrs (Martha Rudd’s landlady), 263
West, Benjamin, 22
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 93–6
Weyer, Jean-Sylvain Van de, 351
Whicher, Inspector Jonathan, 221–2
Whipple, Edwin, 344
Whistler, James McNeill, 400; Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl, 215
Whitby, 226–7
Whiting, Charles, 299
‘Who is the Thief’ (WC; later as ‘The Biter Bit’), 182
Wigan, Alfred, 265
Wigan, Horace, 265–6, 268, 306
Wildbad, Germany, 249, 250–1
Wilde, Oscar, 384, 399
Wilde, William, 410
Wilkie Collins Memorial Library, Mile End Road, 411
Wilkie, Sir David: friendship with William Collins, 16, 27; unaware of William Collins’s marriage, 18; WC named for, 21; visits baby WC, 22; tour of Europe, 24; advises William Collins to visit Italy, 32, 34; as Ned Ward’s mentor, 35; and William Collins’s return from Italy, 39; Collins family visit on return from Italy, 40; death, 51; home in Bolsover Street, 261
Wills, Janet (née Chambers), 100, 140, 174
Wills, William: editing at Household Words, 82, 86; withdraws from acting, 82; Dickens invites to Boulogne, 117; pays WC for ‘The Diary of Anne Rodway’, 164; and WC’s joining staff of Household Words, 166; tones down WC’s review of The Heir of Radclyffe Hall, 184; part-owns and manages All the Year Round, 189, 283; and WC’s Woman in White, 191; blackballed at Garrick Club, 253
Wilton, Marie (Mrs Squire Bancroft), 328, 332
Wimpole Street, 403–4
Windus, William E., 354, 369
Winter, William, 367, 386–7, 394
Winterton, Suffolk, 358
Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, Archbishop of Westminster, 121
Wolzogen, Ernst von, 36
Woman in White, The (WC): character of Count Fosco, 3, 62; part set in Avenue Road, 40, 200; Caroline Graves portrayed in, 159–60; French translation, 190, 225; title, 191–2; writing, 191, 207–8; plot and themes, 192–3, 200–1, 207; on role of private lunatic asylums, 193–5; dedicated to Procter, 195; sources, 198–200; as detective story, 201–2, 273–4; serialised, 203–4, 213; publication as book, 204; musical references, 212; popular success, 213–15; dramatised, 215, 311, 315–16; reviewed, 215–16, 220; and circulating libraries’ terms, 219–20; cheap one-volume edition, 225, 269, 287; German translation, 225; as sensation novel, 232–3, 235; WC proposes abridging, 270; and Martha Rudd, 300; theatre poster, 315–16; US sales, 336; US stage production, 340; will in, 413
Woman’s World, The (magazine), 399
women: WC on injustices to, 4; in WC’s fiction, 27, 62, 75, 81, 102–5, 112, 192, 235, 238–9, 303–4, 323, 348, 371; as writers, 49; in Victorian society, 90; WC disparages in Folkestone, 143; detectives, 162–3, 192, 273; WC’s sympathy for, 162; and marriage laws, 169, 181, 292; feminist campaigners, 189, 197; in sensation novels, 235, 237–8; authors, 392
Wood, Mrs Henry, 237; East Lynne, 232, 350
Woodlands, Muswell Hill, 211, 296, 304
Wordsworth, William, 15, 34, 71
World, The (weekly), 356–7, 364, 373
Worth, Charles, 268
Worthing, 360
Wyatt, Richard James, 34
Wynne, Anne (‘Nannie’), 395
Wynne, Emily Le Poer, 395
Yarmouth, 248–9, 255, 260–1
Yates, Edmund, 173–4, 180, 191, 286, 364, 410
Yeats–Brown, Timothy, 146
Yelverton, Major William (later Viscount Avonmore): divorce case, 292, 301, 304
Yonge, Charlotte M.: The Heir of Radclyffe, 184
Zola, Emile, 371
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Wilkie as a child
2. Wilkie and Charles
3. William Collins
4. Harriet Collins
5. Margaret Carpenter
6. Italian boats at Sorrento
7. The Caves of Ulysses at Sorrento, Naples
8. Charles Collins
9. Wilkie Collins, 1850
10. ‘May, in the Regent’s Park’
11. Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as his Friends
12. Scene from The Lighthouse
13. Scene from No Thoroughfare
14. Wilkie Collins and Richard Doyle
15. Frontispiece to Mr Wray’s Cash-Box
16. Armadale
17. Rehearsal for The Frozen Deep
18. John Everett Millais
19. William Holman Hunt
20. Wilkie Collins, 1857
21. Hotel bill
22. Caroline Graves
23. Caroline Graves: entry in registry of baptisms
24. Wilkie Collins and poster for The Woman in White
25. ‘The Fosco Galop’
26. Christmas message
27. Frontispiece to No Name
28. Wilkie Collins and Martha Rudd
29. Martha Rudd studio portrait
30. Martha Rudd in older age
31. Frederick and Nina Lehmann
32. Edward Smyth Pigott
33. Katey Collins
34. Ned Ward
35. Harriet Ward
36. Commemorative locket
37. Mary Anderson
38. Letter from Wilkie to ‘Nannie’ Wynne
39. Harriet Graves
40. Doris Beresford (née Bartley)
41. Wedding menu
42. Martha Rudd and family
43. William Charles Collins Dawson
44. Birth certificate of William Charles Collins Dawson
45. Wilkie Collins, c. 1873/4
46. Wilkie Collins, caricature
47. Wilkie Collins, c. 1880
The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce these illustrations: Faith Clarke 1, 3, 4, 8, 22, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 39, 40, 42; Private collection 2, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 36, 37, 38, 43; © National Portrait Gallery, London 5, 9; © The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved 6; © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 7, 11; Tate Gallery © Tate, London 2013 10; Topham Picturepoint 14; Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images 17; Andrew Lycett 19, 23, 32, 35, 46; Jeanette Iredale 41; © Crown copyright 44; Grays of Salisbury, private collection, California 45; Susan Hanes 47
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