"Children peer into the charred vestry of the Welmington church." — John McLenan's uncaptioned headnote vignette for the thirty-fifth weekly number of Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" in Harper's Weekly (21 July 1860) (original) (raw)

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Children peer into the charred vestry of the Welmington church.

John McLenan

21 July 1860

10.1 cm high by 5 cm wide (4 by 2 inches), vignetted.

Uncaptioned headnote vignette for the thirty-fourth weekly number of Collins's The Woman in White: A Novel (14 July 1860), 437; p. 219 in the 1861 volume.

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McLenan flags at the head of the instalment the conflagration that will result in the death of Sir Percival Glyde, who is hoist on his own petard as he has attempted to destroy the registry book, and inadvertently trapped himself in the vestry.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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