The Woman in White

The Woman in White begins with Walter Hartright's disturbing encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing teacher to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter finds himself involved in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" friend Count Fosco, who likes white mice, vanilla chocolates and poison. Chasing questions of identity and madness along the paths and corridors of English country houses and asylums, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre to combine gothic horror with psychological realism.

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Fiction, Mystery and Detectives in General, Appearances, Social Life and Customs, Manners and Customs, Psychiatric Hospital Patients, Inheritance and Succession, Country Houses, Art Teachers, Deception, Nobility, Study and Teaching (Secondary), English Mystery and Detective Stories, Fraud, English Language, Young Women, Readers (Secondary), Foreign Speakers, England, Swindlers and Scams, Classic Literature, Psychiatric Hospital Patients - Fiction, Inheritance and Succession -- Fiction, Country Houses -- Fiction, Art Teachers -- Fiction, Deception -- Fiction, Nobility -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, British and Irish Fiction (fictional works by an author), Fiction, mystery and detective, traditional, Hartright, walter (fictional character), fiction, England, fiction, Teachers, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, mystery and detective, general, Mentally ill, Commitment and detention, History, Literature, Fiction, suspense, Historical fiction, English literature, General fiction, Romantic fiction, general, Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques, Romanos, nouvelles, Successions et héritages, Maisons de campagne, Professeurs d'art, Tromperie, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Suspense / Psychological, Fiction, Gothic, Mistaken Identity, Mœurs et Customs, English Language, Study and Teaching, Foreign Speakers, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists and Prose Writers, Fiction and Related Articles, Man-Woman Relationships, Suspense Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, Long Now Handbook for Civilization, County HomesPlaces

England Times

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Includes bibliographic references.