TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Wilkie AU - Davies,David Stuart TI - The woman in white SN - 9781509869367 (hardback) U1 - 823.8 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Macmillan Collector's Library KW - Mentally ill KW - Commitment and detention KW - England KW - Fiction KW - Psychiatric hospital patients KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Country homes KW - Art teachers KW - Deception KW - Nobility KW - Social life and customs KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: 1860 N2 - The first and greatest of the bestselling Victorian thrillers known as 'sensation novels', The Woman in White opens with a chilling encounter between drawing teacher Walter Hartright and a ghostly female figure on a moonlit road. From this moment Walter is drawn into a terrifying world of intrigue, crime, disguise and insanity, as he tries to save his beautiful pupil Laura from the sinister plans of Sir Percival Glyde and the 'Napoleon of Crime', Count Fosco, in one of the most gripping plots in English fiction ER -