![]() ![]() Affably Evil: Count Fosco, charming and courteous even when his plans involve kidnapping, Mind Rape, and murder.20 Minutes into the Past: The novel was originally released in serial form starting in 1859 and ending in 1860, while the story takes place ten years earlier in 1849-1850.It has been adapted many times: a play, several films (at least five films just in the silent era, as well as a 1948 film from Warner Bros.), two different BBC television adaptations, an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, and a much Lighter and Softer PC game. The book is often considered the first Victorian sensation novel. However, nothing is as it seems, and a dark conspiracy is being hatched. ![]() Walter and Laura fall in love, but she has been promised in an Arranged Marriage to local nobleman Sir Percival Glyde. Upon arrival, he discovers that the Mysterious Waif is an escaped mental patient named Anne Catherick, and that Anne bears a striking resemblance to Laura Fairlie. On the night before he takes up the position, he encounters a mysterious woman in white. Walter Hartright, a young drawing master from Victorian London, gets a job teaching art to two young women, half-sisters Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, at Limmeridge House in Cumberland. ![]() Serialised Victorian novel written by Wilkie Collins. ![]()
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