"Count Fosco meets Laura at the London railway station." — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-eighth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (2 June 1860) (original) (raw)

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Count Fosco meets Laura at the London railway station.

John McLenan

2 June 1860

10.7 cm high by 5.9 cm wide (4 by 2 ¼ inchess), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the twenty-eighth weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (2 June 1860), 341; p. 178 in the 1861 volume.

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McLenan flags Laura's arrival at the Southwest Railway Station as significant ‐ and indeed it is, for Anne Catherick's death certificate as "Lady Glyde" is dated the day before. Once Hartright can document the actual date of Fosco's meeting Laura at the station, the whole inheritance scheme dissolves.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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