Frederick Fairlie – A wealthy hypochondriac land-owner: the uncle of Laura Fairlie, distinguished principally by his mock-politeness toward all other characters. 
Walter Hartright – A young teacher of drawing, something of an everyman character, and distinguished by a strong sense of justice. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed The Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Collins also drew on memories of his father, the artist William Collins, in the creation of drawing master Walter Hartright, and populates his story with a number of Italian characters, likely inspired by two years spent in Italy during childhood. The use of multiple narrators (including nearly all the principal characters) draws on Collins's legal training, Īnd as he points out in his preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness". The story can be seen as an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. 
It is a mystery novel and falls under the genre of " sensation novels". The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859 and set from 1849 to 1850.
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