All the Year Round
His play "No Thoroughfare", co-written with Dickens, was published as the 1867 Christmas number of "All the Year Round" and dramatised at the Adelphi Theatre on 26 December. It enjoyed a run of 200 nights before being taken on tour. "The Moonstone" was serialised in "All the Year Round" from January to August 1868. His mother, Harriet Collins, died in that year.