ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Collins’ The Woman in White is described as a Gothic novel. To describe The Woman in White as creepy or spooky or perfect for Halloween does the novel a disservice as it intimates that the book contains ghostly elements and unanswerable questions. Rest assured, the novel is anything but spooky.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bernardine Evaristo’s eighth work of fiction, “Girl, Woman, Other, ” shared the Booker Prize this year with Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments, ” a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” These novels are linked for posterity now, like conjoined siblings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Description. The Woman in White tells the story of Walter Hartright, a young and impoverished drawing teacher who falls in love with his aristocratic pupil, Laura Fairlie. He cannot hope to marry her, however, and she is married off against her will to a baronet, Sir Percival Glyde, who is seeking her fortune.