Anne Catherick, after sending a letter to Laura warning her against However, has promised her late father that she will marry Sir Percival Glyde,Īnd Marian advises Walter to leave Limmeridge. Simple-minded Anne had lived for a time in Cumberland as a child and wasĭevoted to Laura's mother, who first dressed her in white. Hartright finds that Laura bears an astonishing resemblance to the Household comprises Mr Frederick Fairlie, a reclusive valetudinarian Lauraįairlie, his niece and Marian Halcombe, her devoted half-sister.
He helps her on her way but later learns that she has escaped from an Mysterious woman dressed in white, apparently in deep distress. Walking home from Hampstead on his last evening in London, Hartright meets a Walter Hartright, a young drawing master, has secured a position inĬumberland on the recommendation of his old friend Professor Pesca, a Gilbert frontispiece to the 1861 one volume Sampson Low edition The Woman in White has never been out of print since its firstĬentury there have been theatre, film, television and musical adaptations and Was engrossed from morning to sunset, and Gladstone found the story soĪbsorbing that he missed a visit to the theatre. Was parodied in Punch and even such a critical reviewer as Mrs Oliphant,įitzgerald read it several times and considered naming a sailing boat afterĪlbert read the book and approved. In White" perfumes and all manner of toilet requisites, "Woman in There were "Woman in White" cloaks and bonnets, "Woman 'every possible commodity was labelled "Woman in White". Ellis described how The Woman in White was so popular that As Smith, Elder found to their cost, 'everyone was raving about it.' S. This edition of 1861 is the first one-volume publication.Published in 1860, one of the two novels (with Theįirmly established his reputation with the reading public and helped raise theĬirculation of All the Year Round. First published serially in 1859-1860, the novel was first published in book form as a three-volume set in 1860. The Woman in White is an early example of detective fiction. Previous owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper. Repair to diagonal tear at lower corner of pages 85/86. Mild foxing to preliminary pages and last few pages.
Spine and cover edges rubbed, toning to spine.
Additional illustrated title page by John Gilbert. Frontispiece with original albumen portrait of Wilkie Collins and facsimile signature below. Offsetting to outer edges of endpapers due to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers with gilt-ruled turn-ins and decorative board edges. Full tan leather, title stamped in gilt on spine, raised bands with gilt-ruled compartments. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, first one-volume edition.
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