
A fallen woman assumes a dead woman's identity during the Franco-Prussian War, confronting Victorian hypocrisy, class prejudice, and the possibility of redemption through love and faith.
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A fallen woman assumes a dead woman's identity during the Franco-Prussian War, confronting Victorian hypocrisy, class prejudice, and the possibility of redemption through love and faith.
The tone in which those words were spoken was an insult in itself. Mercy suddenly lifted her head; the angry answer was on her lips. She checked it, and submitted in silence. "I will be worthy of Julian Gray's confidence in me," she thought, as she stood patiently by the chair. "I will bear anything from the woman whom I have wronged." William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in Whi...
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Central backstory of prostitution; romantic tension and courtship with clergyman, non-explicit