#the woman in white

[pawswithprose]

Lately 💫💕

#books #book #bibliophile #bookish #cats #flowers #cherry blossoms #cherry blossom #reading #cat #nature #bookworm #shelfie #the woman in white #wilkie collins #english literature #classic literature #pawswithprose

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best musical world cup #2024 best musical world cup #musicals #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #theater #theatre #polls #jersey boys #hedwig and the angry inch #preludes musical #the woman in white

[paris-in-space]

The idea for this has been circling around my head since I finished listening to the audiobook.

#the woman in white #the woman in white Wilkie Collins #marian halcombe #Walter hartright #Laura Fairlie #Anne Catherick #Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[viillette]

I had mechanically turned in this latter direction, and was strolling along the lonely high-road – idly wondering, I remember, what the Cumberland young ladies would look like – when, in one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop by the touch of a hand laid lightly and suddenly on my shoulder from behind me. I turned on the instant, with my fingers tightening round the handle of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road – there, as if it had that moment sprung out the earth or dropped from the heavens – stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments; her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her.

— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

#litedit #bookedit #classiclitedit #the woman in white #wilkie collins #* #why is every sensation novel the most unserious and yet deeply harrowing book you've ever read in your life

[derangedrhythms]

My mind, in that breathless interval, felt like a total blank. I was conscious of nothing but a painful intensity of all familiar perceptions. The sun grew blinding bright; the white sea birds chasing each other far beyond me, seemed to be flitting before my face; the mellow murmur of the waves on the beach was like thunder in my ears.

Wilkie Collins, from 'The Woman in White'

#wilkie collins #the woman in white #prose #dr

[literatureaesthetic]

a little classics haul and my current read!!

#haul #penguin classics #literature aesthetics #books #book #bookish #bookblr #bookworm #bookstagram #dark academia #booklover #books and libraries #book haul #classics #gothic #alls well #mona awad #northanger abbey #jane austen #the woman in white #wilkie collins #the tenant of wildfell hall #anne bronte #studyblr #beige #black and white #study space #pinterest #english literature

[lavinaigrette]

Since some people have expressed interest, I've officially decided to re-run The Woman in White Weekly! As the narrative canonically starts on the last day of July, the newsletter will begin on July 31, 2023 and update every Monday.

Here's the sign up link if you didn't get a chance to follow along last year, and sorry for the short notice!

#the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #tumblr book club

[costumeloverz71]

Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley) Green (or tan) embroidered coat & red vest.. The Woman In White (2018).. Costume by Susan Scott.

#marian halcombe #jessie buckley #the woman in white #susan scott

[mxcottonsocks]

For those of us reading both Dracula Daily and The Woman in White Weekly, it's possibly just worth noting that the Bloofer Lady's hunting grounds are "in and around Hampstead Heath" and that Walter Hartright first met the woman in white having just crossed the Heath.

Nowadays, Hampstead Heath is entirely surrounded by London, but in the 1850s-90s when The Woman in White and Dracula were written, it was on the edge of the built-up area of London, on the boundary between city and country.

I wonder if this made it a sort of "liminal space", a place which acts as a sort of threshold or border, a place between other places, a place which is partly one thing and partly another, and that it was this liminality which made it a compelling place for writers to set strange goings-on?

#hmm #i've been hanging onto this thought ever since part 1 of twiww but i didn't want to mention it until the bloofer lady came up in dd #but now i'm less sure of my point lol #i would be interested in hearing other people's thoughts if anyone has them #the woman in white #the woman in white weekly #1st epoch part 1 #dracula #dracula daily #25 september

[alioshakaramazov]

#the woman in white #wilkie collins #if i was count fosco i simply would have let her kill me. rip to him but im different #marian halcombe

[the-busy-ghost]

Love that Wilkie Collins apparently kept getting letters from guys who were convinced that Marian Halcombe must have been based on a real woman, begging him to introduce them because they were desperate to marry her

#Look Marian didn't need a man but also good for the girl that gets introduced to us as the ugly sister #And I don't mean in that silly Hollywood 'wears glasses but is otherwise conventionally hot way' #I mean 'there is nothing wrong with this woman but she has features that are still mocked and treated with revulsion in the 21st century #So yeah Marian can get it #Poor Wilkie Collins though like how many times do you have to break the hearts of various Berties and Georges and Neds #Before they understand that this fictional character you created isn't going to marry them #All these dudes totally convinced that he was hiding her somewhere #Not to mention all the exasperated parents in Britain whose sons won't get married because they're pining for a fictional woman #Young Algernon COULD be working hard to get a promotion at the bank but instead he's rereading the woman in white again #Cecil turns down a perfectly good job in Canada because he's president of the West Dulwich branch of the Miss Halcombe fan club #And I realise I sound very dismissive but honestly? Good for these young men as well #The Woman in White

[aftout]

Redesign of Dr. Halcombe because she is the one character in JD who has faced the LEAST amount of edits. It was time to CHANGE THAT!!!

#I like this much better than whatever was going on with her dual belt wielding that the old design had #it's not necessarily lab safe but since when has any mad scientist cared about that #get this woman out of her workplace !!!! #my art #juliette's draft #gothic lit au #the woman in white

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best musical world cup #best musical #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #musicals #theater #theatre #great comet #the last five years #the prom musical #alice by heart #the prom #the woman in white #dave malloy #andrew lloyd webber #best snubbed musical world cup qualifiers #best snubbed musical world cup #polls

[paris-in-space]

The Woman in White main characters lineup.

Walter, Anne, Marian and Laura.

I listened to the audiobook over the past few weeks, really enjoyed it, and had an idea for a drawing with these characters, so I did these designs for them first.

#the woman in white #the woman in white Wilkie Collins #Walter Hartright #Anne Catherick #Marian Halcombe #Laura Fairlie #Paris’s box of classic lit blorbos

[fictionadventurer]

🪅, 🐿, and 👒, please?

🪅 A book that came as a complete surprise to you

I was astonished by how enthralling (and fun) the narrative voices were in The Moonstone, and even more astonished by how much I loved Marian Halcombe (probably my favorite character I've encountered in Victorian literature) in The Woman in White.

🐿 A series you'd like to have more and more and more of

I'd like to have more and more books in the Emma M. Lion series, and since we're only on Volume 7 on a planned 24, it sounds like we're going to get it.

👒 A book that you like, but not for the reason most people do

I love Anne of Windy Poplars (partially) because of the letters between Anne and Gilbert, not in spite of them.

#answered asks #wilkie collins #the woman in white #the moonstone #the unselected journals of emma m. lion #anne of windy poplars #l.m. montgomery

[derangedrhythms]

The winter is coming – ah, my love, the winter is coming soon!

Wilkie Collins, from 'The Woman in White'

#wilkie collins #the woman in white #prose #months and seasons #winter