When The Woman in White was published in 1859, there were worries among the Victorian chatterati that “Sensation novels” like Wilkie Collins’ masterpiece, with their themes of moral and criminal depravity in ordinary domestic settings, would overstimulate the prurient but gullible reader and engender all manner of antisocial urges.
26 April 2018, The Tablet
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