In the court's desperate bid to silence it, an innocent man is found guilty - the father of Nicholas Shelby, physician and spy. And in London's dark alleyways, a conspiracy is brewing. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos.
Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar." (from Wikipedia) Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. Summary 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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