A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face.
Wilkie Collins' sixth novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860, when everything from dances to dresses was named after the "woman in white". Nicholas Rance is the author of "Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England".
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