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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
First Published
1999
Subjects
Fiction
mystery & detective
general
Apparitions
Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Psychiatric hospital patients
Inheritance and succession
Country homes
Art teachers
Deception
Nobility
Study and teaching (Secondary)
English Detective and mystery stories
Fraud
English language
Young women
Readers (Secondary)
Foreign speakers
England
Swindlers and swindling
Classic Literature
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Country homes -- Fiction
Art teachers -- Fiction
Deception -- Fiction
Nobility -- Fiction
England -- Fiction
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
Hartright, walter (fictitious character), fiction
England, fiction
Teachers, fiction
Fiction, psychological
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Mentally ill
Commitment and detention
History
Literature
Fiction, suspense
Fiction, historical
English literature
Fiction, general
Fiction, romance, general
Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques
Romans, nouvelles
Successions et héritages
Maisons de campagne
Professeurs d'art
Tromperie
FICTION / Classics
FICTION / Gothic
FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
Fiction, gothic
Mistaken identity
Mœurs et coutumes
English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Fiction and related items
Man-woman relationships
Suspense fiction
Mystery and detective stories
Description
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.