The Woman in White in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jan 28, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: era-victorian, psych-psych-psych, 1001-books, classic, genre-blender, mystery, romance, gutenberg, mistaken-identity

I did not really enjoy my time spent reading this bloated mystery/romance. I can appreciate that it was groundbreaking in its time, but I didn't need to be reading it now in my time.

There are so many great reviews about how fun this story is, I expected some masterful plotting with a big, shocking payoff. But what I've gotten is a great big pile of melodramatic twaddle centered around a heroine who is TSTL. Geez Laura, show that you actually have two brain cells, show some backbone, stand up fo ...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Grace rated it it was amazing

Description (source): Who is the mysterious woman in white who appears to the drawing instructor late one night? From whom is she fleeing? How is she connected with the woman the drawing instructor loves but cannot marry? And above all, what is up with the mysterious Count Fosco?

Review source: This was a free kindle book because it’s in the public domain.

Plot: The book was a little difficult to get started in, but once the woman in white appears, only a few pages in, things start to move quickly ...more

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Oct 06, 2008 Lydia Presley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, historic-fiction, 2010, mystery

A small group of friends and I read THE WOMAN IN WHITE for a month-long blog read-a-long. I was thrilled when this book got chosen because, honestly, it'd been far too long since I read it and the entire thing felt fresh and new.

One of the most fantastic women in literature (in my opinion) occupies the pages of this book. Marian Halcombe is a strong, man-like woman who frequently attacks her own sex with tongue in cheek remarks about their weaknesses. More than that, however, she shows a strengt ...more

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Aug 13, 2007 Louise rated it liked it

This is billed as the first Victorian crime novel, and it's no wonder: most of the plot points are not particularly sophisticated. But they are rather amusing, in a victorian, verbose sort of way. The book reminds me of Dickens novels, in that they tend to go on and on with little movement forward. And the gender roles! This book paints a stereotypical picture of the strong woman being the spinster and the pretty, but delicate beauty always needing a man to help her understand everything. It wou ...more

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Nov 24, 2013 Jessica Haider rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books, london-calling, classics, mystery, ghosts-n-stuff, south-shore-bookclub

Okay, I've finished reading our "longest read of the year" book club book. Now, this baby can be born!

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One of my book clubs selected the classic Victorian novel "The Woman in White" as our January selection. "The Woman in White" is one of those classics someone (long forgotten who) recommended to me probably 15+ years ago, so I am glad that I finally got around to reading it. It definitely has the same "feel" as some of my favorite classics such as Rebecca, Jane Eyre, and Middlemarch an ...more

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Apr 27, 2007 Chris rated it liked it

It was good but it was a total let-down at the end. I guess I don't have the Victorian Values the book counts on to keep it's readership interested. ...more

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