

It then published in two volumes by Smith, Elder in May 1865. He was paid £5,000 for the complete work – money that went to support the two separate families he maintained in London’s fashionable West End at the same timeĪrmadale first appeared as twenty serial episodes in the Cornhill Magazine between November 1864 and June 1865.

It didn’t result in quite so many magazine sales, but it certainly helped to cement his position of the master of the ‘sensation novel’ – of which this was his longest. Tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web linksĪrmadale (1864) was the follow-up to two previously successful novels by Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White (1860) and No Name (1862).
