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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

1859 · literary fiction · adult

Set in 3 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
4/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • London · United Kingdom
    Walter Hartright encounter
    ★ primary
  • Cumberland · United Kingdom
    Limmeridge House, primary estate
  • Hampshire · United Kingdom
    Blackwater Park estate

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