Walter Hartright has found a job in Cumberland as a drawing teacher. On his last
evening in London
he walks home, and suddenly he meets a woman in white called Anne Catherick. He
helps her to find a carriage, but later he finds out that she has escaped from
an asylum. The next day he travels to Limmeridge House. And there he finds out
that one of his pupils, Laura Fairlie, has a huge similarity to the women in
white.
About the Author:
Wilkie Collins was born
in London. As a
schoolboy, Collins was always inventing stories. And after studying law, he
published his first book, a biography of his father. Later, Collins began to
write for a living. In 1851, Wilkie Collins met Charles Dickens, and they
became close friends. Collins wrote for the magazine of Dickens, Household
Words. Then they wrote two plays and a book together. The true genius of
Collins became apparent in the 1860s, he became the leading writer of a popular
new genre called the “sensation novel”. Collins’s best-known works are: The
Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone
(1868). All this books follow Collins’s philosophy of writing: “Make them
laugh, make them cry, make them wait”.
