Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White

The “woman in white” of the title is a mysterious young woman in distress whom art teacher Walter Hartright attempts to help. Much like The Moonstone, the story is an early detective novel told by multiple narrators, causing readers to have to put the pieces together themselves. Like his friend Charles Dickens, Collins was a crusader for social justice, so he also uses the novel to showcase the parlous legal and financial status of women at the time. The sensational plot involves mistaken identities, family secrets, amnesia, and an insane asylum. It became one of the most popular novels of the 19th century, so much so that Wilke Collins had his tombstone inscribed: "Author of The Woman In White". For the first class, please read Part the First, the first two narrative (by Walter Hartright and Vincent Gilmore)."

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