Black Secrets Cloak Wilkie Collins's Woman in White
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More information on Wilkie Collins may be found at this address.
The site is replete with biographical data and links to other useful sites and includes sample correspondence from Dickens to Collins.
And, don't forget the many resources available at the Voice of the Shuttle, which offers scholarly information and links to Victorian authors and works, as well as to authors and works from other time periods and cultures.
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*,Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White has been sitting on my bookshelf for some time, taunting me to be read. It's a beefy book (643 pages in the Oxford World's Classics edition), and I wanted to be sure to have plenty of free time in which to enjoy it. With the holidays behind me and the snow fall in front of me, you would think that January's short cold days would be ideal for huddling in bed, happily entrenched in Collins's gothic and engrossing Victorian mystery. However, my husband and I are in the process of relocating from New Haven to Boston. This means that I spent a good deal of January trekking around in complete despair at the paltry selection of apartments available at astronomical prices in the Boston area. I know New Yorkers will balk at my complaints, but if I'm paying over a $1,000.00 a month for a place, I want to either LOVE my apartment or be forking over the large monthly sum for a mortgage, not for rent. So, while I was happily entrenched in Collins's novel, I was not happily ensconced in a warm bed and with a steaming cup of tea at my side. Instead, wherever I went, the novel was wedged in my pocketbook and was read surreptitiously while traveling by train, drinking cappuccinos in Starbucks between Realtors' appointments, or sitting in a cold hotel room bemoaning callused and blistered feet from a day's worth of apartment hunting up and down Boston and its suburbs. Escaping to the pastoral English hillsides and manors became the perfect and much anticipated anecdote to searching for housing in the twenty-first century. (And did the novel bring me luck? I found a beautiful apartment in a
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