Mortimer Collins

Mortimer Collins
Born(1827-06-29)29 June 1827
Plymouth
Died28 July 1876(1876-07-28) (aged 49)
Berkshire
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Edward James Mortimer Collins (29 June 1827 – 28 July 1876) was an English novelist, journalist and poet. Some of his lyrics, with their "light grace, their sparkling wit and their airy philosophy", were described in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as "equal to anything of their kind in modern English".[1]

Biography

He was born at Plymouth, where his father, Francis Collins, was a solicitor. He was educated at a private school, and after some years spent as mathematics master at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, he relocated to London. Collins devoted himself to journalism written from the Conservative Party perspective, mainly for periodicals. He also wrote occasional and humorous verse, and several novels. Soon after his second marriage, to Frances Collins in 1868, he settled at Knowl Hill, Berkshire and from this time he rarely left his home for a day and published several novels.

He died at the Nightingale Hotel, Richmond, while visiting his son-in-law.[2][3] His funeral was attended by many literary friends, including Tom Taylor, the editor of Punch, the novelist R. D. Blackmore, and the poets Frederick Locker and R H Horne.[4] He was buried in St Peter's Church, Petersham; there is no memorial stone.[5]

Writings

In 1855, he published his Idyls and Rhymes; and in 1865 his first story, Who is the Heir? was published. A second volume of lyrics, The Inn of Strange Meetings, was issued in 1871; and in 1872 he produced his longest and best sustained poem, The British Birds, a communication from the Ghost of Aristophanes.

He also wrote several novels, including Sweet Anne Page (1868), Two Plunges for a Pearl (1872), Miranda (1873), Mr. Carrington (1873, under the name of R. T. Cotton), Squire Silchester's Whim (1873, set in Devon), Sweet and Twenty (1875),[6] and A Fight with Fortune (1876). His three-volume novel Transmigration (1873) is "a fantasy of multiple incarnations of which the middle one is set on a utopian Mars."[7]

Collins is credited by the New English Dictionary with introducing psithurism to the English language. Derived from the Ancient Greek for "whisper", it was applied specifically to the whispering of the wind. This was observed (inaccurately) by The Guardian newspaper in an editorial of 30 September 1909 - reprinted on 30 September 2006 but not available online.

Notes

  1. ^ "Collins, Mortimer" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 692.
  2. ^ "Death of Mr Mortimer Collins". Edinburgh Evening News. 31 July 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 15 August 2023 – via British Library Newspapers.
  3. ^ "Death of Mr Mortimer Collins". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 31 July 1876. p. 3. Retrieved 15 August 2023 – via British Library Newspapers.
  4. ^ "Death of Mr Mortimer Collins". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 5 August 1876. p. 5.
  5. ^ Warren, Charles D (1978). History of St Peter's Church, Petersham, Surrey. Richmond: The Manor House Press. p. 63. ISBN 0904311058.
  6. ^ XIX Century Fiction. Part I: A–K. Jarndyce Bloomsbury, 2019.
  7. ^ George Locke, "Wells in Three Volumes? A Sketch of British Publishing in the 19th Century," Science Fiction Studies, Volume 3 No. 3 (November 1976), p. 283.
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