Who wrote the sensation novel 'The Woman in White'?

Who wrote the sensation novel 'The Woman in White'? Wilkie Collins wrote it. First published serially in 1859–60, it became one of the defining sensation novels of Victorian literature.

The story begins when drawing teacher Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman dressed in white on a London road. He later becomes connected with Limmeridge House, Laura Fairlie, and Laura's half-sister Marian Halcombe, whose investigation drives the novel's mystery.

Collins used multiple narrators, giving the book the feel of testimony assembled from different witnesses. That structure reflects his legal training and helped make the novel an important precursor to modern detective fiction. Its plot involves mistaken identity, conspiracy, inheritance, and institutional power.

Readers sometimes confuse Collins with Charles Dickens because the two men were close friends and the novel appeared in Dickens's magazine, All the Year Round. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Mary Elizabeth Braddon also wrote popular sensation fiction, but Collins is the author of this novel.