"Mrs. Rubelle, not at Limmeridge at all, but gathering flowers at Blackwater." — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-fifth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (12 May 1860) (original) (raw)

Mrs. Rubelle, not at Limmeridge at all, but gathering flowers at Blackwater

John McLenan

12 May 1860

8.8 cm high by 5.9 cm wide (3 ¾ by 2 ¼ inchess), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-fifth weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (12 May 1860), 293; p. 163 in the 1861 volume.

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The illustration points towards the stunning revellation at the curtain of the number: neither Mrs. Rubelle nor Marian Halcombe has left Blackwater Park; their going to Limmeridge was a ruse to get Laura to travel by rail to the Foscos' London residence in St. John's Wood.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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