Mystery books, for me, divide themselves into two kinds. One kind— Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes —is all about restoring ...
The 1850s were the high water-mark of the Victorian malicious lunacy incarceration phenomenon. In 1858, no fewer than four instances of deliberate attempts to certify and dispose of sane people (two ...
'Every drop of my blood in my body was brought to a stop'. A woman in white appears to Walter Hartright ...
Collins was born at 11 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, London, the son of a well-known Royal Academician landscape painter, William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes. Named after his father, he ...