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Title: The Woman in White

Author: Wilkie Collins

Posting Date: September 13, 2008 [EBook #583]
Release Date: July, 1996
Last updated: January 22, 2009

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The Woman in White

by

Wilkie Collins

CONTENTS

First Epoch

THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE

Second Epoch

THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE.
THE STORY CONTINUED BY FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ.
THE STORY CONTINUED BY ELIZA MICHELSON
THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES

THE NARRATIVE OF HESTER PINHORN
THE NARRATIVE OF THE DOCTOR
THE NARRATIVE OF JANE GOULD
THE NARRATIVE OF THE TOMBSTONE
THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT

Third Epoch

THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT.
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MRS. CATHERICK
THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
THE STORY CONTINUED BY ISIDOR, OTTAVIO, BALDASSARE FOSCO
THE STORY CONCLUDED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

(of Clement's Inn, Teacher of Drawing)

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a
Man's resolution can achieve.

If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case
of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate
assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the
events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the
public attention in a Court of Justice.

But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged
servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the
first time, in this place. As the Judge might once have heard it, so
the Reader shall hear it now. No circumstance of importance, from the
beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay
evidence. When the writer of these introductory lines (Walter
Hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others
with the incidents to be r