Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1859 and given White's popularity you can be sure that 1948 didn't see the first film adaptation.

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer, the author of over thirty novels, including The Woman in White, Armadale and The Moonstone.

with William Wilkie Collins

- We've already dealt with William Wilkie Collins several times, particulary with respect to the Cook's two classic novels, The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868) (HERE), as well as: T. S. Eliot's take on The Moonstone (HERE); how Collins's crime fiction was a good fit for the Victorian frame of mind (HERE); and why, according to one author, The Moonstone is the only piece of detective fiction literature ever produced (HERE).

William Wilkie Collins's best-known works

William Wilkie Collins's best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name.

William Wilkie Collins's great novels

William Wilkie Collins's great novels appeared in the 1860s, when, at the height of William Wilkie Collins's powers, Collins' wrote The Woman in White (1860),

Collins

Credited by Henry James with introducing into fiction “those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors”, Collins wrote ‘The Woman In White’ in 1860 — a brilliantly plotted thriller that is equally strong on atmosphere and suspense.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens also mentions other novels such as The Woman In White and Moonstone.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel

The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel

Walter Hartright

Wilkie Collins was a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens but outsold Walter Hartright in London and New York in 1860 with Walter Hartright's first ever detective novel, The Woman in White.

in novel form after being serialised in the magazine, All Year Round

The Woman in White was published in novel form in 1860, after being serialised in the magazine, All Year Round, and firmly established Wilkie Collins’ reputation with the reading public.

WIllkie Collins

No sensation novel novel demonstrated this connection more than WIllkie Collins’ The Woman in White.

William Collins

The Woman In White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone were William Collins's best known works.

Patricia Wentworth's most famous novel,

Patricia Wentworth's most famous novel, The Woman in White, published in 1860, is a melodramatic and complicated tale of a conspiracy to dispossess an heiress of Patricia Wentworth's money, filled with dark secrets of lunacy, illegitimacy and mistaken identities, and made memorable by 30 02 100 MR CRIME F 9/8/06

artist Walter Hartwright

The Woman in White is a sensational mystery narrated by draughtsman and artist Walter Hartwright and various other characters within the tale whose accounts are coloured by their distinctive points of view.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, recently reworked for a new production, somehow manages to be substantially more regressive than the Victorian sensation novel

Susan Hill's lifetime

Author of The Woman in White, Susan Hill, relates Susan Hill's favourite books and authors, covering Susan Hill's lifetime.

Susan Hill's favourite books

Author of The Woman in White, Susan Hill, relates Susan Hill's favourite books and authors, covering Susan Hill's lifetime.

Author of The Woman in White, Susan Hill

Author of The Woman in White, Susan Hill, relates Susan Hill's favourite books and authors, covering Susan Hill's lifetime.

Avery

Shortly before Stephen Avery's death of a heart attack at Stephen Avery's Los Angeles, California, apartment at the age of fifty-four, Avery penned the scripts for The Woman in White (1948) and Every Girl Should Be Married (1948), a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake.

by Frank LaLoggia,[5

Lady in White is a 1988 American supernatural horror mystery film directed, produced, written and scored by Frank LaLoggia,[5] and starring Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, and Katherine Helmond.