Asby Book Club
thu03jan20:00Asby Book ClubThe Woman in White20:00 The Three Greyhounds, Great Asby
Event Details
“The Woman in White” Wilkie Collins Lead: Jackie F ‘In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop… There, as if it had that moment sprung
Event Details
“The Woman in White”
Wilkie Collins
Lead: Jackie F
‘In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop…
There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white.‘
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ‘charming’ friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison.
Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
All welcome – no fees – just come along to listen even if you have not read the book.
Time
(Thursday) 20:00
Location
The Three Greyhounds
Great Asby
