Book · 1860 · Fiction

The Woman in White

Name: The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 671 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Walking home from Hampstead at night, a drawing master meets a woman all in white escaped from an asylum. Collins tells it as sworn testimony, and Victorian England bought Woman in White perfume.

Genre

Mystery

Medium

Novel

Subject

Social class Gender roles Secrets

Time

1860Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)

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