See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• ROBERT COLLYER (1823— )

COLLYER (1823— )  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American Unitarian See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• KEIGHLEY (locally KEITHLEY)

Keighley, See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, on the 8th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1823 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of eight he was compelled to leave school and support himself by See also:

• WORK

work in a See also:

• LINEN

linen factory . He was naturally studious, however, and supplemented his scant schooling by See also:

• NIGHT

night study . At fourteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and for several years worked at this See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade at See also:

• ILKLEY

Ilkley . In 1849 he became a See also:

• LOCAL

local Methodist See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year emigrated to the See also:

• UNITED

United States, where he obtained employment as a See also:

• HAMMER, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1810-1862)

hammer maker at Shoemakersville, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania . Here he soon began to preach on Sundays while still employed in the factory on See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week-days . His See also:

• EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest, rugged, See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of See also:

• ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory made him extremely popular, and at once secured for him a wide reputation . His advocacy of See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery principles, then frowned upon by the Methodist authorities, aroused opposition, and eventually resulted in his trial for See also:

• HERESY

heresy and the revocation of his See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence . He continued, however, as an ' See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

Michel See also:

• GERARD (c. 1040-1120)
• GERARD (d. I1o8)
• GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (1773–1852)
• GERARD, FRANCOIS, BARON (1770-1837)
• GERARD, JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE (1803-1847)
• GERARD, JOHN (1545-1612)
• GERARD, or GIRARD, AUDRAN

Gerard was a popular See also:

• BRETON, BRITTON
• BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE

Breton See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy (see See also:

• JACOBINS, THE

JACOBINS) . 694 to contribute to See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

Household Words, where After Dark (1856) and The Dead See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Secret (1857) ran serially . His See also:

• GREAT

great success was achieved in 186o with the publication of The Woman in See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White, which was first printed in All the Year See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

Round . From that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he enjoyed as much popularity as any novelist of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The See also:

• MOONSTONE

Moonstone, a See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital detective See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story (1868), being among his most successful books .

After The New Magdalen (1873) his ingenuity became gradually exhausted, and his later stories were little more than faint echoes of earlier successes . He died in Wimpole See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street, See also:

• LONDON

London, on the 23rd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1889 . See also:

• COLLINS, ANTHONY (1676-1729)
• COLLINS, JOHN CHURTON (1848-1908)
• COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1787–1847)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE (1824–1889)

Collins's See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift was of the melodramatic See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, and while many of his stories made excellent plays, several of them were actually reconstructed from pieces designed originally for See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production . But if his See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours were occasionally crude and his methods violent, he was at least a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of situation and effect . His See also:

• TRICK

trick of telling a story through the mouths of different characters is sometimes irritatingly disconnected; but it had the merit of giving an See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air of actual See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence and reality to the elucidation of a See also:

• MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery . He possessed in the highest degree the gift of absorbing See also:

• INTEREST

interest; the turns and complexities of his plots are surprisingly ingenious, and many of his characters are not only real, but uncommon . See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Fosco in The Woman in White is perhaps his masterpiece; the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character has been imitated again and again, but no See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation has ever attained to the subtlety and See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original .