White woman

Author: Collins Huang Yi, Yang Jiping
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of the landscape painter William Collins. His father, William Collins, was a devout religious man and also a high-ranking Tory. After his father's death, Wilkie dropped the first name William from his name, rebelling against the example his father had set for him. He became a close friend of Dickens. They collaborated on writing, traveled abroad together, and may have even frequented music halls and brothels. He lived with a woman named Caroline Graves for a while and even had three children with another woman named Martha Rudd. This lifestyle offended the moral standards of the Victorian era, so at his death in 1889, few people attended his funeral. Although a few of his female friends sent empty cars along for show. Collins is famous for his two novels, "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone." "The Moonstone" is called by T.S. Eliot "a long, good modern English detective novel." When the first appeared on the London streets at night in the presence of a 28-year-old painter named Walter Hartley, the suspense story began. From that moment on, Walter Hartley's life was no longer the same, and he was drawn into a group of meticulously portrayed characters, including the brave Marian Halcombe, the cruel Sir Percival Glyde, and the vicious Count Fosco. These characters lead the readers through a complex and engaging plot until the mystery is finally unraveled at the end of the story.