The Woman in White Study Guide

The Woman in White

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The theme of the story is the unequal position of married women in law at the time. Laura Glyde's interests have been neglected by her uncle and her fortune of£20,000 (then an enormous sum of money) by default falls to her husband on her death. This provides the motive for the conspiracy of her unscrupulous husband and his co-conspirator Fosco. In his later Man and Wife , Collins portrays another victim of the law's partiality, who takes a terrible revenge on her husband.

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