The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Maria K. Bachman (Editor) and Don Richard Cox (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1551116448
  • ISBN13 9781551116440
  • Publish Date 20 April 2006 (first published December 1952)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 696
  • Language English