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Scandalous sensations: The Woman in White on the Victorian stage.

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20060322
Author:Bachman, Maria K.

Though Wilkie Collins continued his prodigious output of sensation fiction during the 1870s, biographer Kenneth Robinson notes that Collins was "far more interested in the theatre" (252). In fact, between 1871-73 no fewer than three Collins plays were produced in the West End of London with his two greatest stage successes--The New Magdalen and Man and Wife--running concurrently. Drama had always been one of Collins's passions, and early in his career in the letter of Dedication to his novel Basil (1852), he described the "novel" and the "play" as being

 
   twin-sisters in the ...

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