"Count Fosco's delightful summer costume" — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-third weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (28 April 1860) (original) (raw)

Count Fosco's delightful summer costume

John McLenan

28 April 1860

10.1 cm high by 5.5 cm wide (4 by 2 ⅛ inchess), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-third weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (28 April 1860), 269; p. 151 in the 1861 volume.

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The illustration marks the breaking off of Marian's narrative as she succumbs to a fever. The next entry, then, is not hers at all, as Collins introduces Mr. Fairlie's contribution in the middle of the serial number.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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