A Run-down News-vender's." — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-seventh weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (26 May 1860) (original) (raw)

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The Trio's London Hideout: A Run-down News-vender's.

John McLenan

26 May 1860

10.7 cm high by 5.6 cm wide (4 ⅛ by 2 ⅛ inches), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-seventh weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (26 May 1860), 325; p. 168 in the 1861 volume.

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McLenan admirably suggests the run-down news-vender's shop by the handbills posted on its front, by the sign's being slightly askew, and by the off-kilter louver (left). A week after Hartright's meeting Laura and Marion at Mrs. Fairlie's grave, the trio have given themselves a convincing cover-story and inconspicuous hide-out.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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