The Woman in White

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The Woman in White

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 696 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781551116440
  • DDC分類 FIC

Full Description

As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the "author of The Woman in White," for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister accomplice, Count Fosco.

This edition returns to the original text that galvanized England when it was published in serial form in All the Year Round magazine in 1860. Three different prefaces Collins wrote for the novel, as well as two of his essays on the book's composition, are reprinted, along with nine illustrations. The appendices include contemporary reviews, along with essays on lunacy, asylums, mesmerism, and the rights of women.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Woman in White

Appendix A: Prefaces to the Novel

Preface, 1860, Sampson Low, Son & Co., Three-volume Edition
Preface to the Present Edition, 1861, Sampson Low, Son & Co., One-volume Edition
Preface. La Femme en Blanc, 1861, trans. E.D. Forgues, J. Hetzel (Paris)

Appendix B: Sample Page from All the Year Round

Appendix C: Commentary and Reviews of The Woman in White

The Opinions of Charles Dickens
Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (25 August 1860)
Unsigned Review [E.S. Dallas], The Times (30 October 1860)
"Awful Apparition," Punch (6 April 1861)
Unsigned Review [Mrs. Oliphant], Blackwood's Magazine (May 1862)
Edmund Yates, "Mr. Wilkie Collins in Gloucester Place," in Celebrities at Home (1879)
Wilkie Collins, "How I Write My Books: Related in a Letter to a Friend," The Globe (26 November 1887)
F.W. Waddy, "He Wrote 'The Woman in White,'" Once a Week (24 February 1872)

Appendix D: The Woman Question

From William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69)
From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England,Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits (1839)
From John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies, 1865 (1907)
From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen (1855)

Appendix E: The Lunacy Panic of 1858 and the Mesmeric Mania of 1851

"Lady Bulwer Lytton," The Times (19 July 1858)
"Commission of Lunacy," The Times (27 July 1858)
[Editorial], The Times (28 July 1858)
"The Tragedy of Acomb House," The Sunday Times (1 August 1858)
"The Mad-House System," The Sunday Times (15 August 1858)
"Lunatic Asylums and the Lunacy Laws (By a Physician)," The Times (19 August 1858)
"Commission in Lunacy," The Sunday Times (29 August 1858)
"Law and Lunacy," Punch (25 January 1862)
"Mesmerism; Its Dangers and Curiosities," Punch (24 February 1844)
Anonymous, "Electro-biology," Westminster Review (1851)
Wilkie Collins, "Magnetic Evenings At Home" (Letter I), The Leader (17 January 1852)

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