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8 de abr. de 2022 · When James McNeill Whistler’s life-size portrait of his lover Joanna Hiffernan was advertised to Londoners as an “Extraordinary Picture the WOMAN IN WHITE” in 1862, it entered a world already thronging with women in white. The archetype was the titular character of Wilkie Collins’ phenomenally successful novel of 1859–60.
The Woman in White, von Wilkie Collins, 1890. Die Frau in Weiß ist ein Roman von Wilkie Collins, der 1860 erschien.Das Buch gilt als das erste dem Genre des typischen englischen „Mystery Novel“ zugehörige Werk.
Plot Summary. The Woman in White is widely considered to be one of the first mystery novels as well as a first in the genre of “sensation” novels. It was written by Wilkie Collins in 1859 and tells a story of intrigue in London. Walter Hartright is a young art teacher. One night in London, he sees a distressed woman dressed entirely in white.
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English playwright and novelist. A close friend and frequent collaborator of Charles Dickens’s, he is best known as the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, “sensation novels” widely recognized as forerunners of modern suspense.
The original Mss of The Woman in White By Wilkie Collins ‘I began this story on 15 August 1859, at Broadstairs, and finished it on the 26th July 1860 at 12 Harley Street, London. It was first published, in weekly parts, in “All the Year Round”, beginning in the number for November 23rd 1859, and ending with the number for August 22nd 1860.
Wilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, featuring updated endnotes and an introduction by Anne Perry. “ [The Woman in White] has lasted, to our great pleasure, because it is superb storytelling about people who engage our minds and our imaginations and into whose passions we are drawn.”—Anne Perry.
The events described in the novel take place in the 1850s in England. A young painter from London, Walter Hartright, secures a position as an art teacher at Limmeridge House in Cumberland, which belongs to Frederick Fairlie.On a hot summer night prior to his departure, Walter meets a very strange woman on the empty street, who is dressed in a completely white dress.
