Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1860)
From Commonplace Book
Contents
General Notes
Renumber from bantam to Oxford ed
- 9 "We don't want genius in this country, unless it is accompanied by respectability" (Pesca's client when P recommends Walter
- 20 Walter "mechanically" walking - that word keeps recurring
- 39 "How can I describe her [Ms Fairlie]? How can I separate her from my own sensations, and from all that has happened in the later time?"
- interestinng that the narrator feels the need to decouple description from affect (given his rather cruel description of Mrs Vesey earlier), and the repeated pressure of "later time" and later narrative on the "narrative present": both a device for foreshadowing and for suggesting the contingency of the narrative
