Skip to main content

Previous

Considering poetry from a narrative perspective

Next

Past, present and future: Shakespeare and the story of English

Representations of women in The Woman in White

Nicola Onyett considers the three sisters in Wilkie Collins’s bestselling Victorian blockbuster

AQA (A): Independent critical study, recommended text

In his own day Wilkie Collins (1824–89) was talked up by his publisher as the ‘King of Inventors’ and damned with faint praise by the critics as a technically brilliant literary craftsman. One typical contemporary review of his cracking thriller The Woman in White (1859–60) referred to him as:

Your organisation does not have access to this article.

Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise

Subscribe

Previous

Considering poetry from a narrative perspective

Next

Past, present and future: Shakespeare and the story of English

Related articles: