![]() ![]() Marian advised Walter to forget his love for Laura and live their place, a painful advice which he followed. Walter and Laura eventually became very close to each other and had a relationship, but Laura was already set to marry Sir Percival Glyde. While he was in their house he discovered that the woman dressed in white whom he helped was also Laura’s sister. A day later, he travelled to Cumberland to be a drawing master to the half-sisters Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe. The story begins with Walter Hartright helping a woman dressed in white who turned out to have escaped from a mental asylum. Like most novels that fall into this category, the protagonists here are pushed to their limits by the villains before they finally got the justice they deserved. ![]() ![]() It’s considered to be one of the first “sensation novels” to be published. Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White tells the story of two half-sisters, Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe who were embroiled in the sinister plot of Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco to take over their family’s wealth. ![]()
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