Sensation novel
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The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material that was sho
Captioned "The Novelist who invented Sensation", caricature of Wilkie Collins in Vanity Fair, 3 February 1872
Trilby (novel)
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Trilby is a sensation novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from January to August 1894, it was published in bo
Sensation novel
…the Lady Wilkie Collins 1879 The Cloven Foot Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1881 The Black Robe Wilkie Collins 1893 The Venetians Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1894 Trilby George du Maurier Legacy Neo-Victorian novels, such as Celia Fremlin's The Hours Before Dawn (1958) and Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries (2013), have…
Cover of the first edition of the novel (1894)
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, portrait by Peter Copmann, 1837
Svengali as a spider in his web, illustration by George du Maurier, 1895