Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship Book

	List of Illustrations
	The Collaborations of Dickens and Collins
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business	15
2	Collins Joins Dickens's Management Team: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary"	35
3	The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of The Frozen Deep	60
4	Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 1857	100
5	"No Thoroughfare": The Problem of Illegitimacy	129
6	Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood	163
	Conclusion: "This Unclean Spirit of Imitation": Dickens and the "Problem" of Collins's Influence	198
	Works Cited	203
	Index	211