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The Woman in White

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE (REVIEW DATE FEBRUARY 1861)

SOURCE: "Recent Popular Novels: The Woman in White." Dublin University Magazine 57, no. 338 (February 1861): 200-04.

In the following excerpt, the critic offers a negative assessment of The Woman in White.

[In The Woman in White] the spirit of modern realism has woven a tissue of scenes more wildly improbable than the fancy of an average idealist would have ventured to inflict on readers beyond their teens. Mr. W. Collins has for some years been favourably known to the general reader as a painstaking manufacturer of stories, short or long, whose chief merit lies in the skilful elaboration of a startling mystery traceable to some natural cause, but baffling all attempts to solve it until the author himself has given us the right clue. Some praise is also due to him for the care with which these literary...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Wilkie Collins (Story Date August-September 1875)
4. General Commentary
   1. Tamar Heller (Essay Date 1992)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Woman in White
   2. Fred Botting (Essay Date 1996)
6. Further Reading