num_pages: 694
description: As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the “author of The Woman in White,” for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher’s eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister accomplice, Count Fosco.This edition returns to the original text that galvanized England when it was published in serial form in All the Year Round magazine in 1860. Three different prefaces Collins wrote for the novel, as well as two of his essays on the book’s composition, are reprinted, along with nine illustrations. The appendices include contemporary reviews, along with essays on lunacy, asylums, mesmerism, and the rights of women.
language: English
title: The Woman in White
titlecomplete: The Woman in White
characters: Anne Catherick, Frederick Fairlie, Vincent Gilmore, Count Fosco, Laura Fairlie, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Madame Fosco, Mrs. Catherick, Sir Percival Glyde
genres: Historical Fiction, Gothic, Literature, Victorian, Horror, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, 19th Century
ratings_count: 150646
places: United Kingdom, England, Cumberland, England, London, England, Hampshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Broadview Press