2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD in 1775) commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.

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"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

*Wilkie Collins.

By Karen Offutt.

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"The important things to remember when Apparating are the three Ds!' said Twycross. 'Destination, Determination, Deliberation!"
— JKR (HBP18)



by Ottowl

https://t.co/C9q8JGOfma

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JUST PUBLISHED: our new article, The Two Women in White, examines two works featuring extraordinary women that enthralled & shocked 1860s Britain ~ Wilkie Collins’ bestselling novel & Whistler’s outrageous portrait

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Wilkie Collins, born January 8, 1824.

"People who read stories are said to have excitable brains."

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Magic trick from Wilkie.

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Lunch break. I'm spending mine with The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
(art by Jill Barklem)

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Novelist, playwright and creator of one of the first detective novels, Wilkie Collins, died in 1889. 'Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.' (The Moonstone, 1868)

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General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tippoo Sahib after having Captured Seringapatam, on the 4th May, 1799 by Sir David Wilkie found via https://t.co/JS6g3I3ltu

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I’ve been wanting more Wilkie Collins content on the wonderful for years and I’ve FINALLY gotten round to emailing them to suggest it.

If anyone fancies doing likewise, drop them a line at: content-requests.co.uk


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David Wilkie’s early nineteenth century demo

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As today is the Duke that was promised's birthday I've done a quick little (based on D. Wilkie) and 2 others of mine.

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Wilkie Collins, born January 8, 1824.

"Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper."

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Here’s a to celebrate Day 1 of 2018
Thanks for organizing!

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"My future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.” - Wilkie Collins, Basil

-Repose, Fiona Skipper-

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