![]() This dramatic tale, inspired by an actual criminal case, is told through multiple narrators. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Buy Study Guide The Woman in White Character List Walter Hartright A drawing teacher, aged twenty-eight, Walter Hartright is from a middle-class background. Noted for its suspenseful plot and unique characterization, the successful novel brought Collins great fame he adapted it into a play in 1871. This technique was copied by other novelists, including Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897), although by the end of the 19th century the technique was considered “old-fashioned”. The Woman in White, novel by Wilkie Collins, published serially in All the Year Round (November 1859July 1860) and in book form in 1860. Collins used this technique in his other novels, including The Moonstone. Published in 1860, The Woman in White is a dramatic story and Collins bases some of it off a criminal case. This creates a complex web in which readers are unsure which narrator can, and cannot, be trusted. The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in which several characters in turn take up the telling of the story. 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’…. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert The Woman in White ![]()
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