Table of 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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