The Woman in White

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Broadview Press, Apr 20, 2006 - Fiction - 694 pages

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.

 

Contents

List of Illustrations
7
Acknowledgements
8
Introduction
9
A Brief Chronology
38
A Note on the Text
41
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
47
Prefaces to the Novel
618
Sample Page from All the Year Round
626
Commentary and Reviews of The Woman in White
627
The Woman Question
655
The Lunacy Panic of 1858 and the Mesmeric Mania of 1851
665
Select Bibliography
692
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About the author (2006)

Maria K. Bachman is an Associate Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.

Don Richard Cox is a Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. They are the editors of the Broadview edition of Wilkie Collins’s Blind Love (2003).

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