The Woman in White is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'.

Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.

This new critical edition is the first to use the manuscript of the novel.

John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel's complicatedevents.