The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins

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Paperback | 5 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collin's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.

About the Author

Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846, having spent five years in the tea business, he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the legal knowledge that was to give him much material for his writing.

From the early fifties, he was a friend of Charles Dickens, acting with him, contributing to Household Words, travelling with him on the Continent. Dickens produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, The Lighthouse (1855) and The Frozen Deep (1857).

Collins is best remembered for his novels, particularly The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), which T. S. Eliot called 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. His later, and at the time rather sensational, novels include The New Magdalen (1873) and The Law and The Lady (1875). Collins also braved the moral censure of the Victorian age by keeping two women (and their households) while marrying neither. He died in 1889.

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"Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit." - Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Woman in White	p. i
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxv
Select Bibliography	p. xxvi
A Chronology of Wilkie Collins	p. xxviii
Preface to the Present Edition	p. 3
The Story* Begun by Walter Hartright, of Clement's Inn, Teacher of Drawing	p. 5
The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor	p. 127
The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor	p. 163
The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe	p. 198
The Second Epoch	p. 198
The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge House1	p. 345
The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson, Housekeeper at Blackwater Park	p. 364
The Third Epoch	p. 420
The Story Continued	p. 553
The Story Continued	p. 629
Preface [1860]*	p. 644
the Composition, Publication, and Reception of the Woman in White	p. 647
Original Sources for the Woman in White	p. 659
the Chronology of the Woman in White	p. 662
Explanatory Notes	p. 669
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