At first glance, a piece of sentimental Victorian melodrama with added social commentary and criticism of the Victorian class system. Not surprising, considering Wilkie Collins ...

"The New Magdalen" delivers an enjoyable story of assumed identities, heart-breaking clashes between desire and conventions of society and a social commentary of the ...

"You don’t have to put on the red light", as Sting sings – except this female main character, Mercy Merrick, comes to that conclusion herself. Originally written as a play ...

Though perhaps this story does not equal, from a literary point of view, some of Collins's previous efforts—it being less sensational and less complicated in its plot—it is ...

This is a story about a 'fallen woman' (in this novel Mercy Merrick). Mercy becomes a nurse and teams up with a respectable young woman called Grace Roseberry whom she meets in ...

"The New Magdalen" delivers an enjoyable story of assumed identities, heart-breaking clashes between desire and conventions of society and a social commentary of the ...

Reproduction of the original: The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins