![]() ![]() And then there is the steady half-sister of Laura, one Marion Halcombe, a bit plain to look at, according to Hartwright, though he should probably have married her instead of her sister because Marion is much more intelligent and resourceful. And of course, we have to have an evil foreign nobleman, in this case the itinerant Count Fosco. Then there is the tyrannical Sir Percival Glyde, who lives at Blackwater Park (Laura, I think, should have thought twice before going there, just because of the name of the place). Our heroes are named Walter Hartwright and Laura Fairlie, and two more virtuous surnames I couldn’t imagine. ![]() I enjoyed this book in part because the character types were all fairly typical of those Gothic Romances. It is a work describing great passion between two people and the travails they must go through to secure a true romance. ![]() I’m sure many of you are familiar with Gothic style fiction, and The Woman in White, though written some forty years after that fad, carries elements of a Gothic romance that even Ann Radcliffe would have approved of. ![]() The Woman in White is one of those classic Victorian novels that can either bore you to tears, or, as in this case, delight you with a fast paced plot and great characterizations. ![]()
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