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“I am perpetually tidying the room after him,” Dickens wrote. Peters suggests that Collins took quiet revenge by making finickiness a signal trait in Percival Glyde, one of the villains in The Woman in White.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books Caleb Crain London Review of Books 2008
So keenly is the scent followed, so carefully is the evidence collected, so gradual is the completion of the design, that it is difficult to imagine the writer so free from the uncertainty he makes so spell-like to his readers…

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Collins’s storytelling talents were utterly mesmerising for Victorian readers—and they are no less captivating for readers today. He was the master of the “cliff-hanger”, and given the 40 or so of them that strategically punctuate The Woman in White, it’s not difficult to see why this Victorian novel continues to thrill us.

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The Woman in White is a truly timeless mystery; atmospheric to the very last. One ought to read it every year.

— Lily Power