Links

• The Wilkie Collins Information Pages
  A general website about Wilkie Collins and his work ~ hosts a page about 'The Woman In White Play', see direct link in this list.
  
  
• Masterpiece or Monster
  A useful review of 'The Woman In White', that suggests that Collins produces caricatures rather than characters. Somewhat unfair, but sometimes true . . .
  
  
• The Open University Reading Page
  The UK's Open University Page for those wishing to study 'The Woman In White'.
  
  
• The Wilkie Collins Website
  The best Wilkie Collins' website on the whole darn' Internet. I wouldn't dream of creating a website about Wilkie Collins because Paul Lewis knows more about him than I ever will. And the good news is that what he knows Paul has published here.
  
  
• The Woman In White Play
  Deatila of early attempts to stage the story. Examples date from 1860 to 1954.
  
  
• Fearless Fragments
  A very well written page about 'Sensation Literature' including 'The Woman In White'. The page is striking, but white text on black, and sometimes in italic makes it difficult to read.
  
  
• The Woman Question
  Philip V. Allingham,'s commentary on a woman's role as depicted in Victorian society through the lens of Wilkie Collins' literature.
  
  
• Old and Sold
  A complete synopsis of 'The Woman In White' by Wilkie Collins. If the book is your homework assignment, and you would sooner be playing with your X-Box then this link shortens the reading time considerably.
  
  
• Late Victorian Scribblers
  An excerpt from 'British Sensation Fiction'. The information is useful, but the page suffers from pinkness and odd graphics.
  
  
• Books And Writers
  A brief but well-written biography of Collins, includes details of his parentage.
  
  
• Victorian Novels, Their composition, publication and reception
  This is the cached page of Lisa Honaker's paper concerning Wilkie Collins' 'Double Identity'.
  
  
• The Letters Of Charles Dickens To Wilkie Collins
  Lawrence Hutton intoduces CDickens, (and Collins), before reproducing this importand correspondence.
  
  
• Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman In White
  This is an essay. It takes a while to load and although good in parts suffers from stating overmuch: 'In this essay I will argue."
  
  Make what you will of it!
  
  
• The Sensationa Use Of Medicine
  Tamara S. Wagner writes: "Victorian novels -- and in particular sensation fiction -- engage deliberately, in great detail, and often self-consciously as well as critically with current medical discourses".
  
  This is a lengthy article that explores such themes as mental health, medical treatment, and pseudo-science within the context of Sensation Literature.
  
  
• A Terribly Strange Bed
  Philip V. Allingham poses questions about Collins' life and work on the Victorian Web
  
  
• The Really Useful Company
  This is a short well written piece about THE BOOK from 'The Really Useful Company' who are responsible for The Musical.
  
  
• Book Crossing
  Readers express their impressions of 'The Woman In White' in a forum.
  
  
• The Penguin Reader's Group UK
  Members of the public discuss the book. Cryptic comments, did they really read it?
  
  
• Surf Wax
  This is a literary search enine, with the 'Search Term' pre set to 'The Woman In White'. Content therefore changes, but should be up-to-date.
  
  
• Sensation Press
  A short page about Wilkie Collins, that contains some nice contemporary illustrations of early stage versions of 'The Woman In White'.
  
  
• Were Laura Fairlie and Walter Hartright legally married?
  A fascinating conversation on Google answers. Discusses the English marriage laws of the period, as well as Church procedures.
  
  
• Insane Women as a Literary Convention, 1800-1865
  This is a book review of a recent work. It outlines the development of mental illness as a theme in literature making special reference to women.
  
  
• Penguin (US) Woman In White and Moonstone
  The Book Club Reading Guide: begins with the following quote from Henry James ~ To Mr. Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors."
  
  
• McMaster Humanities
  Sensation Fiction ~ Contemporary Reviews And Responses: A page of reviews dating from the Victorian Era. Includes reviews of 'The Woman In White, by Wilkie Collins.
  
  
• All The Year Round
  This page is about 'All The Year Round: A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. This was the magazine in which 'The Woman In White' was first published, and in serial form.
  
  
• Insupportable Evidence And The Absence Of Desire
  Five Victorian Novels are analysed in this thesis, which is in PDF format.
  
  
• Kingwood College Library
  This is a page about Collins' other popular novel, 'The Moonstone'. It provides a brief but adequate introduction to Wilkie Collins, and graphically displays the times in which he lived and worked. Includes links to other useful web sites.
  
  
• New Criterion On Line
  A review of a book about Wilkie Collins life and work titled:
  
  'More than sensational: the life and art of Wilkie Collins'.
  
  The review is interesting in its own right, providing as it does some background about Collins' life and work.
  
  
• The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel
  Sophia Aneres 67 page PDF which includes the following comment about 'The Woman In White': "In The Woman in White Collins develops these new ways of interacting with ... narrative technique with social critique." . . . more
  
  
• Collins To Grisham: A Brief History Of The Legal Thriller
  An article about 'The Legal Thriller'. These are novels with a secret, and ones that usually involve crime and are best when they include intricate points of the law.
  
  
• The Observor: Inventing the Victorians
  I'm unsure why I've included this link. It reviews a recent book that claims to be social history but is probably just one of those 'all so clever' books that tell more about the author than the works he discusses. Pompous twaddle!