Novelist
Wilkie Collins
Wrote The Woman in White and The Moonstone, which T. S. Eliot called the first and best English detective novel. He took laudanum for gout for most of his adult life.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
- Born
- 1824-01-08, London, EnglandA Thursday
- Died
- 1889-09-23, London, EnglandA Monday, aged 65
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Aries
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1824-01-08, London, England · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Londonthe zone used then
Europe/LondonThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 17°14′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aries | 5°20′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 2°29′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 1°17′ | Direct |
| Mars | Libra | 6°05′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 4°36′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Taurus | 17°05′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Capricorn | 12°01′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Capricorn | 7°31′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Aries | 0°07′ | Direct |
Death Chart
1889-09-23, London, England · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Londonthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 0°37′ | Direct |
| Moon | Virgo | 11°00′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 26°39′ | Direct |
| Venus | Leo | 25°37′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 0°07′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 29°45′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 28°30′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Libra | 20°59′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Gemini | 4°30′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Gemini | 6°52′ | Retrograde |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Wilkie Collins was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.