Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)
Picture taken by Elliot and Fry in 1871.
Wilkie Collins was an English author of the Victorian era. His writing was very popular during his life and he wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. More about the author from the image link above...
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The Woman in White by Call Number: F COLISBN: 074455683XA young drawing master, Mr. Hartright, is hired by the fretful Mr. Fairlie to teach his two nieces, Marian and Laura. On his way to their house, Hartright is startled by a mysterious encounter with a ghostly woman dressed in white. When he meets Fairlie's nieces, he is struck by Laura's resemblance to the woman in white...
The Woman in White by Call Number: F COLISBN: 009951124X
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- The Woman in White - Audio bookThe 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. 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’
Scene from The Woman in White: 1948
The Woman in White
On a moonlit night, Walter Hartright, a drawing teacher, encounters a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white. He cannot get her out of his thoughts and his interest in her only increases as he discovers her connection to his new students: half-sisters Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie. The novel follows these characters as they try to discover the secrets of the woman in white, Anne Catherick; Laura’s first husband, Sir Percival Glyde; and his close friend, Count Fosco. Sinister plots, questions of identity and more.... Clcik image above to read about the book
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