EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part VIII” He hopes to avoid future meetings as much as possible. Fairlie to discuss the terms of his employment. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part VII” He meets one of his wards, Marian, at breakfast, and learns more of the ways of Limmeridge house. Walter greets a new day with a new outlook. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part VI” He arrives late, after the family has retired for the night, so he does the same. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part V”ĭespite some difficulties, Walter completes his journey, wondering all the while about the mysterious woman. She is mysterious and interesting to Walter, but is gone before he can find out more. Walter leaves home preparing himself for his new employment, but is distracted by a woman he meets on the road. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part IV” Walter's reaction doesn't equal the reaction of the others. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part III” The narrator reveals some detail about his own past, as well as introducing his friend, Pesca, and the circumstances of their meeting. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part II” The method by which the story is to be told is introduced, along with the first narrator. EPOCH ONE: “The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, Part I”

It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of “sensation novels”.Ĭollins, W. The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860.

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