...upper lip was almost a moustache. She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piereing, resolute brown eyes; and thick, coal-black hair, growing...attractions of gentleness and pliability, without which the beanty of the handsomest women alive is beanty incomplete. To see such a face as this set on shoulders...

...of conventional gender roles; Marian is distressingly "masculine" in his eyes, and her expression is "altogether wanting in those feminine attractions...of the handsomest woman alive is beauty incomplete" (25). Hartright's relief when Marian's expression becomes "womanly" (26) is similar to his reaction...

...popular novel Woman in White features two such characters, both described as unnatural. Marian Halcombe's "expression — bright, frank, and intelligent —...feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability" (pp. 29-30). Where Marian is frank and respectable, if strange, Anne Catherick is a madwoman who shrieks...

...Woman in White, Marian is described as being dark and ugly, for she has "a swarthy complexion. . . . a large firm masculine mouth and jaw; prominent piercing...and thick, coal-black hair, growing unusually low on her forehead." The connection of darkness with exoticism arouses anxiety in the viewer, who sees...

...The lady's complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piercing, resolute brown eyes . . . Her expression - bright, frank, and intelligent - appeared ... to be altogether wanting in those...

..."The lady's complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent,...hair, growing unusually low down on her forehead" (25). Point for point, Marian's physical description matches that given by George Borrow in his study,...

...presence of a particular temperament. Walter Hartright, the other principal detective, notes of her that, 'She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent,...feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability' (pp. 58-9). At this stage in the novel the emphasis is on how Hartright interprets character through...

...masculine facial features: the 'dark down on her upper lip' resembles a 'moustache', and, worse still, she had 'a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piercing, resolute brown eyes' and a 'bright, frank, intelligent' expression which seemed 'to be altogether wanting in those feminine...

...The lady's complexion was almost swarthy and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent,...thick, coal-black hair, growing unusually low down her forehead."21 Like Sambourne's "Designs After Nature" cartoons, Marian's body is a conglomeration...

...readers, 91. 210 Ibid., 114. 211 Collins, The Woman in White 198. 212 Ibid., 32. 213 Ibid., 125. sion - bright, frank, and intelligent - appeared, while she...feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability (...)."215 4.1.2 Figurenanalyse von Marian Halcombe Marian entspricht nicht dem Stereotyp einer Viktorianischen...