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Count Isidore Fosco in The Woman in White

Following on from Jonny Patrick’s consideration of Collins’ Sir Percival Glyde, Nicola Onyett turns to the dastardly and deceptive Count Fosco

Fosco permits us unsettling glimpses of the cruel predator behind the mask

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The antithesis of the tall, aristocratic, hyper-masculine and stereotypically English Sir Percival Glyde, Count Isidore Fosco is fat, foreign, effeminate and eccentric.

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