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

  1. Preface, 1860, Sampson Low, Son & Co., Three-volume Edition
  2. Preface to the Present Edition, 1861, Sampson Low, Son & Co., One-volume Edition
  3. 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

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

Appendix D: The Woman Question

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

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

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

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Posted on October 29, 2015