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Collins trained as lawyer and took the Bar as a young man, but never practised law. In much of his fiction the law is presented as either complicit with power or actively pernicious in its preservation of rigid social codes.
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Wilkie Collins in ContextPages
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This material has been published in revised form in Wilkie Collins in Context edited by William Baker and Richard Nemesvari https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009038157. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © copyright holder.Publication date
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Literature in ContextLanguage
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William Baker; Richard NemesvariDepositor
Dr Anne-Marie Beller. Deposit date: 2 January 2024Usage metrics
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