A selective bibliography of open access articles on Wilkie Collins, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Ablow, Rachel. "Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2003
Baker, William, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis Publisher's blurb for The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: the Collected Letters, Pickering and Chatto
Clarke, William M. A review of Clarke's The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins. (Allison and Busby, 1988). Reviewed in the Guardian by Charles Rollings
Jones, Anna. "A victim in search of a torturer: Reading masochism in Wilkie Collins's No Name." Jones examines No Name as a variation on the sensation novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2000
Nayder, Lillian. "No Love Story." A review of Nayder's Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship (Cornell Univ. Press, 2002). Reviewed by Coleman, Dawn in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2002
Peters, Catherine. "Heroine, and after that the laudanum." A review of Peters' The King Of Inventors: A Life Of Wilkie Collins (Secker and Warburg, 1991). Reviewed in the Guardian by Sylvia Clayton
The Victorian Web has excellent essays on Wilkie Collins's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background. From George Landow
A summary of Wilkie Collins's life, U.K. Guardian Newspapers
A biographical introduction to Wilkie Collins from Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A biographical article on Wilkie Collins. The Imperial Archive Project, Queens Univ., Belfast, by graduate student Bronagh Clarke
"Imperial Resistance in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone." The Imperial Archive Project, Queens Univ., Belfast, by graduate student Tricia Doyle
"'The Perils of Certain English Prisoners': Dickens' Defensive Fantasy of Imperial Stability," on a work co-authored by Collins. The Imperial Archive Project, Queens Univ., Belfast, by graduate student Nicholas Stewart
"Colonialism and Morality in The Moonstone and The Man Who Would Be King," The Imperial Archive Project, Queens Univ., Belfast, by graduate student Graham Peters
"Kings and Queens of Crime," a short article on the continuing appeal of Wilkie Collins by Andrew Taylor, at Tangeled Web books
A reading and discussion guide to The Moonstone, Kingwood College Library, Kingwood, TX
The web site WilkieCollins.com contains assorted facts of interest, by journalist Paul Lewis
Article on the lasting appeal of The Moonstone, from the web site Mystery Net for mystery fans
"Wilkie Collins: Father of the Detective Novel," by Charles L. P. Silet, article geared to a popular audience, Mysterynet
On the evolution of the mystery story article geared to a popular audience, Mysterynet
On Wilkie Collins's characters who are interested in music, short article at Musicweb
For a list of Wilkie Collins's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet
Horsley, Lee and Katharine. "Crime Culture," an academic web site on crime fiction, crime film, and true crime. Includes original articles, syllabi, recommended secondary bibliography for teaching crime fiction, and more
Marling, William. "Hard-boiled detective fiction," contains essays by Dr. Marling on early writers of hard-boiled fiction, classic writers, and later writers in this style, an extensive secondary bibliography, and more
Black Mask Magazine "the classic hard-boiled pulp crime mag." Slickly produced and informative, includes pages on the history of the genre and some early tales from Black Mask
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