]]>  Saint Mungo's City (aka Glasgow) was distinguished as a novel dealing with industrialization and urban life in Scotland.]]> Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: “It presents many phases of life, from that of a London physician and his class to that of men engaged in opening up Southern Africa through diamond-digging . . .”]]> The Self in the Cell, Narrating the Victorian Prisoner, p. 101: “He is careful in The Autobiography of a Thief to imitate and reveal the prison’s explicit power to control private narrative and to shape the trust about prisoner identity and desire.”]]> Antonina, and “A Story of Modern Life.” Basil is high-born but falls in love with a linen-draper’s daughter, with whom he contracts a secret marriage. She is subsequently seduced by her father’s clerk, and Basil discovers them in a sordid hotel with walls so thin that he can hear them copulating (horrifying Collins’s contemporaries). In the resulting fight the seducer is thrown onto a newly macadamized road and horribly disfigured. The unfaithful wife dies of typhus and remorse. Later the rivals meet in Cornwall, and the seducer is thrown into a boiling sea.]]> ]]>