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The woman in white

 
dc.contributor Bicker, Lynne The Registry U of Kent
dc.contributor.author Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-04T09:49:39Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-04T09:49:39Z
dc.date.created 1860
dc.date.issued 1987-04-30
dc.identifier ota:1056
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1056
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1056
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.subject.other Novels
dc.title The woman in white
dc.type Text
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files.count 2
otaterms.date.range 1800-1899

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THE WOMAN IN WHlTE PREAMBLE THIS is the story of what a Wonian's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice. But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge might once have heard it, so the Reader shall hear it now. No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. When the writer of these introductory hnes (Walter Hartright by name) happens to be more closely con- nected than others with the inciden . . .

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