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The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". Source: Collins, W. (1860).
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.. Although the woman in white was still in my mind, the image of her seemed to have grown dull and faint already. A little before nine o'clock, I descended to the ground-floor of the house. The solemn man-servant of the night before met me wandering among the passages.
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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.
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The sensation genre appealed to all classes with unique force. It emerged out of gothic fiction, influenced also by the lurid real-life crime stories written up in the Newgate Calendar and by stage melodrama. This was a world that was suddenly in flux and full of anxiety about the changes underway.
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The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels. The various strands of the plot combine to produce a thrilling story, leading this particular type of fiction to be described as 'sensation'.
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Upon his arrival at Limmeridge, Walter meets the first of his two pupils, Marian Halcombe. Marian is homely but intelligent and charming in manner. Her half sister, Laura, is the beauty of the.
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Wilkie Collins. OUP Oxford, Apr 17, 2008 - Fiction - 752 pages. The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations.
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She is Wilkie Collins' best character, Marian Halcombe (played by Jessie Buckley), who has come to see a man called Mr Nash for help. She is wearing black - including veil - because she's in.
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The Woman in White is generally regarded as the first Sensation Novel and inspired numerous imitations, most notably from Mary Braddon. The story is in part based on an eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment, taken from Mejan's Recueil des Causes Celebres.It uses the theme of substituted identity, a favourite with Collins, and also attacks the misuse of lunatic asylums.
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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. The Woman in White: Introduction A concise biography of Wilkie Collins plus historical and literary context for The Woman in White. The Woman in White: Plot Summary
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Our main protagonist is Walter Hartright—though he is not present during a great amount of chapters—who is besides the first narrator and a young teacher of drawing who starts working at Limmeridge House, having two students there: Laura Fairlie and her half-sister, Marian Halcombe.
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A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular.
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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel. Learn More.
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The Woman in White. Wilkie Collins. Open Road Media, May 27, 2014 - Fiction - 720 pages. The first and greatest sensation novel, a thrilling story of evil thwarted and love reclaimed. The night before he leaves London for a temporary engagement in the North of England, drawing instructor Walter Hartright walks home on an empty, moonlit road.