The Woman in White

About “The Woman in White”

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins opens with Walter Hartright's unsettling encounter on a moonlit London road. He is hired as a drawing master for Laura Fairlie and becomes involved in the mysterious affairs of Sir Percival Glyde and his friend Count Fosco, who has an unusual interest in white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. The novel explores themes of identity and insanity as it moves between English country houses and a madhouse. It is recognized as the first and most influential work in the Victorian genre that blends Gothic horror with psychological realism.