Biography
Willets Collins - English writer, whose work has undeservedly turned out to be buried under the masterpieces of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Its works are distinguished by identity, mystical exciting plots, the sharpness of the tongue and the ease of perception, and the novel "Woman in White" his authorship will decorate the library of each book.
The biography of William Wilki Collins takes on January 8, 1824 in London, in the prosperous quarter of Marilyon, in the family of the English painter, a member of the London Academy of Arts William Collizz and Harriet Geddes. The name of the boy inherited from his father, and the average name for which he later learned the whole world, got from the godfather - the artist-Zhanrist David Willow.
4 years after the birth of the firstborn, another child appeared in the family - Charles Alston Collins. Later he went in the footsteps of his father and became a painter, a follower of pre-emptylitis - creative directions, the purpose of which was the struggle against the conventions of the Victorian era.
The first knowledge of Willow and Charles got at home. Family Collins was deeply religious, so Harriet forced sons to attend the church, read prayers before bedtime and observe posts. This side of life was not to taste the future writer, but in maturity he professed Christianity with hunting and zeal
In 1835, Wilki entered the Maida Vale Academy, but he studied for a long time: from 1836 to 1838, the family lived in Italy, then in France. Abroad, boys quickly mastered Italian and French. The latter gave the Wilki easily, and later he loosened him.
Returning to the Motherland, the parents sent the boy to the private boarding school of Reverend Cole in Hyber, in the north of London. Wilki did not like learning, but especially his neighbor in the room, which was womed in the middle of the night and forced to tell the stories to better sleep.
"It was a rude boy who walked me daily, his little poor sacrifice. But if it were not for him, I may never have woken up ... When I left the school, I continued to tell the story, but for my pleasure, "such a quote later appeared in the Willow Collins diary.At the end of 1840, the guy graduated from school and at the insistence of the Father got on Antrobus & Co. tea traders. The monotonous stationery was not like the call, but he worked on a farm for 5 years.
Books
Simultaneously with the work at the enterprise, Wilki created the first work - the story "Last coach", which in 1843 was published in the magazine "Illuminated". In the same year, the Englishman wrote the debut novel "Iolani, or Tahiti, as it was," offered him a printed house "Chapman & Hall", but in 1845 he received a refusal. The book was not published during the author of the author: the first edition appeared only in 1999.
Attempts by Willow to become a writer dispelled the hopes of William Collins on the fact that the Son will inherit his profession and becomes an artist. Nevertheless, the Father did not stay away from the choice of the future for the heir: he imposed Wilki's path of the clergy, and then convinced to enter the lawyer to the Honorary Society of Lincolns-Inn in 1846.
Collins Jr. showed a slight interest in the law and most of the time worked on the novel "Antonina, or the fall of Rome". After the death of the Father in 1847, Wilki published the first serious work - "Memories of the life of William Collins, Esquire, a member of the Royal Academy of Arts." This novel immortalized the name of the English painter.
Continuing to give the tribute to the father's memory, in 1849, Willow Collins tried himself as an artist and created a picture of the "retreat of smugglers", which was presented at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy.
In February 1850, Roman "Antonina" came out. This work is although it is significant in the work of Collins, but causes less interest than "walks away from the railway" (1851). Colorful notes, charming the beauty of the English nature, were written during a Cornwall county in July-August 1850. The company writer was the artist-landscapeist Henry Brandling.
At the same years, Wilki Collins completed legal education and became a barrister, that is, a member of the lawyers corporation. Although the writer has never formally practiced the right, the knowledge gained during the training of knowledge actively used in writing novels to give the narration of reliability. In 1851, the British artist Auguste Leopold Egg introduced Collins with Charles Dickens, and this event became swivel in a novice writer's career.
Men have become replicious friends and colleagues. In May of the same year, together played in the play "Not so bad, as it seems" Edward Bullov-Litton, whose audience became Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The works of Collins "Awful Strange Bed" (1852), "Robber Life" (1856), "Dead Secret" (1857) and others were published in the journal Dickens "Home reading".
In 1853, Wilki released the novel "Basil" about the young aristocrat, which violates one of the taboos of representatives of the top class - falls in love with a doubtful girl, the daughter of the merchant fabrics. If Basil gives up his temptation and connects himself with unworthy, his father will leave him without the right to inheritance. Of course, a young man makes a choice in favor of love and turns out to be drawn into a dark story.
In the screening of 1998, filmed by Indian director Radha Bharadvaja, the main role was performed by Jared Summer, Claire Foreni became his chief, and a friend who introduced Basil with a dinner girl, played Christian Slater.
For many works, Collins filmed films, and the most popular is the "woman in white" - a novel-sensation, written in 1859. He tells about the young artist Walter Hartrain, which is restored by the engravie from the collection of the Aristocrat Frederica Fairley. Esquins have a nephew of Laura, and she like two drops of water looks like a strange woman in a white - escaped patient a psychiatric hospital, which Walter meets along the way to the estate. This circumstance scares a young man and attracts at the same time.
The Observer magazine put the "woman in white" on the 23rd place in the top 100 best novels of all times, and the directors, including Soviet, began to be shielded. The first 2-serial film Vadim Derbenev came out first in 1981, in 1982 and 1997, British Music Movie John Bruce and Tim Faybell presented his vision. Since 2018, the mini-series is removed based on the novel.
Works published in the 1860s are the best in the writer's career: "Unnamed" (1862), "Armadeil" (1866), "Lunar Stone" (1868). Together with the "woman in white", these 4 books provided Willow Collins reputation to the master of the pen and were sold to large circulations, which allowed to economically grow.
In 1870, 2 important events occurred in the life of Collins: the publication of the novel "Husband and Wife" and the death of Charles Dickens. Over the grave of the best friend, Willow said:
"We saw each other every day and loved each other as men could."
In the last decade, the health of Collins has noticeably deteriorated: the Englishman almost blinded, did not leave the house and wrote with difficulty. He passed his knowledge to young talents, including Romanist Hall Kane, and also helped them defend their copyright. Gradually, writing has become a way to deal with a disease that did not allow to finally keep the bed. Wilki Collins almost completed the novel "Blind Love", addressed after his death Walter Besant.
Personal life
In 1857, Collins met Caroline Graves - brought up in a poor family to a girl who married her daughter Harriet and widowed. The existence of a single mother provided a small shop, in which the Willow often looked around. He treated Harriet as a native child and helped her go to school. A year later, a couple began to live together.
The writer did not support the Institute of Marriage, but remained faithful Caroline and Harriet, considering them his family. And the woman wanted to marry. She left Collins when he wrote the "Lunar Stone", suffered from a sharp attack of gout and dependence on Opium, married a young man named Joseph Clow, but after 2 years returned to Collins.
In 1868, the personal life of the writer enriched himself with acquaintance with Martha Radd, a 19-year-old girl from a poor family. Three children appeared in the Union: daughters Marian (1869) and Harriet Constance (1871), son William Charles (1874).
Death
Willow Collins died on September 23, 1889 from a paralytic strike. The body is buried on the Kencal Green Cemetery in West London.
In 1895, death came to Caroline Graves, the faithful writer's companion. The latter overlook the woman found next to a civil husband.
Bibliography
- 1852 - "Basil"
- 1854 - "game of hide and seek"
- 1860 - "Woman in White"
- 1862 - "Unnamed"
- 1866 - "Armadele"
- 1868 - "Lunar Stone"
- 1870 - "Husband and wife"
- 1872 - "Poor Miss Finch"
- 1875 - "Law and Woman"