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    A Fair Penitent
    A Fair Penitent
    A Fair Penitent
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    A Fair Penitent

    By Wilkie Collins

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    A Fair Penitent
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    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 essays. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

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      A Fair Penitent - Wilkie Collins

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins

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      Title: A Fair Penitent

      Author: Wilkie Collins

      Release Date: October 5, 2008 [EBook #2006]

      Last Updated: December 10, 2012

      Language: English

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      A FAIR PENITENT

      By Wilkie Collins

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      About A Fair Penitent

      This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, Household Words, volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's financial accounts.

      A FAIR PENITENT

      Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He prospered sufficiently well, as a literary man, to be made secretary to the French Academy, and to be allowed to succeed Voltaire in the office of historiographer of France. He has left behind him, in his own country, the reputation of a lively writer of the second class, who addressed the public of his day with fair success, and who, since his death, has not troubled posterity to take any particular notice of him.

      Among the papers left by Duclos, two manuscripts were found, which he probably intended to turn to some literary account. The first was a brief Memoir, written by himself, of a Frenchwoman, named Mademoiselle Gautier, who began life as an actress and who ended it as a Carmelite nun. The second manuscript was the lady's own account of the process of her conversion, and of the circumstances which attended her moral passage from the state of a sinner to the state of a saint. There are certain national peculiarities in the character of Mademoiselle Gautier and in the narrative of her conversion, which are perhaps interesting enough to be reproduced with some chance of pleasing the present day.

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