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TITLE DEED: HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME THE WOMAN IN WHITE BY WILKIE COLLINS

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060108
Author:Gary Dexter

One night in the mid-1850s, Wilkie Collins, his brother Charles, and John Millais were out walking. Millais's son later wrote: '...as the three friends walked along chatting gaily together, they were suddenly arrested by a piercing scream coming from the garden of a villa... the iron gate leading to the garden was dashed open, and from it came the figure of a young and very beautiful woman dressed in flowing white robes that shone in the moonlight'. The woman fled and Wilkie pursued her. She was Caroline Graves, who had been imprisoned at the villa under the mesmeric influence of an unnamed ...

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