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"There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, asif it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from theheaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head tofoot in white garments."

Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman inwhite in what soon became one of the most popular novels of thenineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surpriserevelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and anunorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant successwhen it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrallreaders ever since. From the hero's foreboding before his arrivalat Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautifulLaura, the breathtaking tension of Collin's narrative created a newliterary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped thecourse of English popular writing. Collins other great mystery,The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective storyever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imaginationof the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed:"Author of The Woman In White. . . "

在那宽阔明亮的大路中间，站着一个孤独的女人，从头到脚穿着白衣服，仿佛那一刻从地里蹦出来或从天上掉下来一样

因此，年轻的沃尔特·哈特赖特在很快成为十九世纪最受欢迎的小说之一的《白衣神秘女子》中第一次见到了她。秘密，错误的身份，惊喜的揭露，健忘症，锁着的房间和锁着的精神病院，以及一个北方恶棍使这部神秘惊悚片在1860年首次出现时瞬间获得了成功，并一直吸引着读者。从主人公到达利默里奇家前的不祥预感到关于美丽光环的邪恶情节，柯林叙事的惊人张力创造了一种新的悬疑小说体裁，深刻地影响了英国通俗写作的进程。柯林斯的另一个伟大的谜团，月亮石，被称为有史以来最好的侦探故事，但正是这部作品如此抓住了世界的想象力，威尔基柯林斯有自己的墓碑题写：“白衣女人的作者…”