Armadale

by Wilkie Collins

  Journal and Times and other Tillotson titles; November: The Legacy

  of Cain published in volume form

  1889

  30 June: Suffers a stroke; 6 July–28 December: Blind Love

  serialized in the Illustrated London News, completed by Walter Besant

  after Collins’s death; 23 September: dies at 82 Wimpole Street;

  27 September: funeral at Kensal Green Cemetery; 24 October:

  auction of furniture and effects

  1890

  January: Blind Love published in volume form; 20 January:

  auction of library and manuscripts; 22 February: auction of

  pictures and drawings; February: The Lazy Tour of Two Idle

  Apprentices published in volume form by Chapman and Hall

  1895

  June: Caroline Graves dies and is buried with Collins

  1919

  Death of Martha Rudd