The Woman in White
About this book
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
Subjects
- apparitions
- art teachers
- art teachers -- fiction
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- commitment and detention
- country homes
- country homes -- fiction
- deception
- deception -- fiction
- england
- england -- fiction
- england, fiction
- english detective and mystery stories
- english language
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, suspense
- foreign speakers
- fraud
- general
- hartright, walter (fictitious character), fiction
- history
- inheritance and succession
- inheritance and succession -- fiction
- literature
- maisons de campagne
- manners and customs
- mentally ill
- mystery & detective
- nobility
- nobility -- fiction
- patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques
- professeurs d'art
- psychiatric hospital patients
- psychiatric hospital patients -- fiction
- readers (secondary)
- romans, nouvelles
- social life and customs
- study and teaching (secondary)
- successions et héritages
- swindlers and swindling
- teachers, fiction
- young women