Title: The Diary of Anne Rodway
Title Record # 1585767
Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1856-07-19
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1856-07-19
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Incidental supernatural content: Anne Rodway has a dream in which an angel encourages her to persevere and discover the truth.
"Originally published in two installments in Household Words 330-1, pp. 1-7, 30-8 (19 and 26 July 1856). Reprinted as 'Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway' in a The Queen of Hearts (1859)." — quoted from p 381 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.
Synopsis: "Set in 1840, Anne Rodway is a poor 'plain needlewoman' whose friend and fellow lodger, Mary Mallinson, is brought home mortally wounded by a blow to the head. Anne follows the clue of a torn cravat clutched in her dying friend's hand and sets out to discover the murderer. She is assisted by her fiancee, Robert, who has just returned from America and they bring to justice Noah Truscott, the perpetrator of the crime."—Wilkie Collins Information Pages
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Mad Monkton and Other Stories | 1994-00-00 | Wilkie Collins | Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) | 0-19-282260-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
xxxviii+ 383 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Caspar David Friedrich |  |