Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Lady of Glenwith Grange by The Lady of Glenwith Grange by Wilkie Collins. AFTER DARK. After Dark is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. Collins provides a narrative framework, 'Leaves from Leah's Diary', set in 1827. Leah Kerby's husband, William, is a poor travelling portrait-painter forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight. Leah realises that if she acts as amanuensis William can support them by turning author. This situation may have been prompted by a period of eye-trouble suffered by Collins's father. In the preface to After Dark , Collins also acknowledges the painter W. S. Herrick as his source for the facts on which 'A Terribly Strange Bed' and 'The Yellow Mask' are based. 'The Traveller's Story of A Terribly Strange Bed' was originally published on 24 April 1852 as Collins's first contribution to . Faulkner, the narrator, tells how as a young man he visited a low class gambling house in Paris. After breaking the bank, he accepts accommodation rather than risk taking his large winnings home late at night. The canopy of the four poster bed is attached to a screw by which it can be lowered from the room above to suffocate unsuspecting victims. Unable to sleep, Faulkner discovers the danger, escaping to return with the police. The same plot was used in Uncle Z by Greville Phillimore (1881) : and fo r 'The Inn of the Two Witches' (1913), a tale by Joseph Conrad who claimed never to have read Collins's story. 'The Lawyer's Story of A Stolen Letter' is an early detective story, probably influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'. It was originally published with the title 'The Fourth Poor Traveller' in 'The Seven Poor Travellers', the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words for December 1854. The narrator is a lawyer who contrives, in a series of ingenious moves, to steal back an incriminating letter from a blackmailer. The letter contains a confession to an attempted forgery by the dead father of a poor young governess, Miss Smith. The lawyer's success enables her marriage to a rich young man, Frank Gatliffe, to take place without the threat of scandal. 'The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose' is a long short story originally published in Household Words 7-28 April 1855. There is an added Prologue included in this version for After Dark . The f irst separate publication was a pirated edition by Petersons of Philadelphia in 1855 where it was wrongly attributed to Dickens. Set against the background of the French Revolution, the story concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville's land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine's father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville's animosity. Danville denounces Trudaine to the revolutionary authorities, implicating Rose. Through his lies at their trial, both brother and sister are both condemned to the guillotine. Lomaque, who has become a police agent, saves their lives by removing their names from the death list with a chemical formula. Freed by the downfall of Robespierre, the brother and sister confront Danville three years later as he is about to remarry. He is rejected by his mother and killed in a duel. The Trudaines and Lomaque return to the tranquillity of the family home in Rouen. The story is a likely influence on (1859), set in revolutionary France and featuring an escape from prison through substitution. 'The Angler's Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange' was published for the first time in After Dark. Ida Welwyn promises her dying mother that she will always look after her younger sister, Rosamond. Against Ida's better instincts, Rosamond marries Baron Franval whom she meets in Paris. A French police agent exposes the Baron as an impostor called Monbrun and he is killed while trying to escape. Rosamond dies of shock leaving her retarded daughter to be brought up by the reclusive Ida at Glenwith Grange. 'The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage' was originally published in Household Words, 16-23 April 1853. The plot was rewritten as the basis for the play The Lighthouse in 1855. The scene is Brittany at the time of the French Revolution. Gabriel Sarzeau becomes estranged from his fisherman father when he discovers that he committed a murder. Before his marriage, Gabriel confesses his knowledge to Father Paul, a fugitive priest. Father Paul reveals that he was the victim but survived his wounds. He performs the marriage ceremony, forgives his attacker, and reconciles father and son. 'The Professor's Story of The Yellow Mask' was originally published in Household Words, 7-28 July 1855. The story uses the idea of making a mask from the cast of a statue, first employed in Mr Wray's Cash-Box (1852). A second theme, of recovering money for the Church, reappears in (1881). Count Fabio d'Ascoli is a pupil of the master-sculptor, Luca Lomi. Lomi's brother, Father Rocco of Pisa, believes that part of the young Count's inheritance is money stolen from the Church. In order to recover it, Rocco plans to have Fabio marry Lomi's daughter, Maddalena, over whom he can exert influence. He persuades Fabio's true love, the naive model Nanina, to leave Pisa. The marriage takes place but Maddalena dies the following year after the birth of a daughter. Rocco decides to play on Fabio's superstitions to prevent him from remarrying. He employs the mercenary Brigida to impersonate Maddalena at a masked ball by wearing a yellow mask over a cast of Maddalena's face. Fabio is so shocked at the ghost of his dead wife that his mind is temporarily unhinged. Nanina is able to prove that he has been tricked by natural means and they are happily married. PUBLISHING HISTORY FOR AFTER DARK. Serialisation. For first publication see individual stories above. Book publication. First edition. 2 volumes, Smith, Elder, London 1856. Dark grey-green cloth, covers blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow end-papers. Half-title in each volume. Published in February 1856. Variant binding in paper boards, half cloth, with white end-papers. Vol I viii + 316 pp. 16 pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end (dated January, February or April 1856). Vol II (iv) + 324 pp. Publisher's advertisement occupies p . (323). 1 volume editions. Smith, Elder 1859-1890 (with 5 Illustrations by [A. B. Houghton]); Chatto & Windus 1890-1925. First US edition. Dick & Fitzgerald, New York [1856]. Translations. German, Lemgo 1859; Polish, Lwow 1871; Dutch, The Hague 1876. All material in these pages is © copyright Andrew Gasson 1998-2010. The Lady of Glenwith Grange by Wilkie Collins. myself to be introduced where no new faces could awaken either interest or curiosity; where no new sympathies could ever be felt, no new friendships ever be formed. As soon as we had taken leave of Miss Welwyn, and were on our way to the stream in her grounds, I more than satisfied Mr. Garthwaite that the impression the lady had produced on me was of no transitory kind, by overwhelming him with questions about her—not omitting one or two incidental inquiries on the subject of the little girl whom I had seen at the back window. He only rejoined that his story would answer all my questions; and that he would begin to tell it as soon as we had arrived at Glenwith Beck, and were comfortably settled to fishing. Five minutes more of walking brought us to the bank of the stream, and showed us the water running smoothly and slowly, tinged with the softest green lustre from the reflections of trees which almost entirely arched it over. Leaving me to admire the view at my ease, Mr. Garthwaite occupied himself with the necessary preparations for angling, baiting my hook as well as his own. Then, desiring me to sit near him on the bank, he at last satisfied my curiosity by beginning his story. I shall relate it in his own manner, and, as nearly as possible, in his own words. The Angler’s Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange. I have known Miss Welwyn long enough to be able to bear personal testimony to the truth of many of the particulars which I am now about to relate. I knew her father, and her younger sister Rosamond; and I was acquainted with the Frenchman who became Rosamond’s husband. These are the persons of whom it will be principally necessary for me to speak. They are the only prominent characters in my story. Miss Welwyn’s father died some years since. I remember him very well—though he never excited in me, or in any one else that I ever heard of, the slightest feeling of interest. When I have said that he inherited a very large fortune, amassed during his father’s time, by speculations of a very daring, very fortunate, but not always very honourable kind, and that he bought this old house with the notion of raising his social position, by making himself a member of our landed aristocracy in these parts, I have told you as much about him, I suspect, as you would care to hear. He was a thoroughly commonplace man, with no great virtues and no great vices in him. He had a little heart, a feeble mind, an amiable temper, a tall figure, and a handsome face. More than this need not, and cannot, be said on the subject of Mr. Welwyn’s character. I must have seen the late Mrs. Welwyn very often as a child; but I cannot say that I remember anything more of her than that she was tall and handsome, and very generous and sweet-tempered towards me when I was in her company. She was her husband’s superior in birth, as in everything else; was a great reader of books in all languages; and possessed such admirable talents as a musician, that her wonderful playing on the organ is remembered and talked of to this day among the old people in our country houses about here. All her friends, as I have heard, were disappointed when she married Mr. Welwyn, rich as he was; and were afterwards astonished to find her preserving the appearance, at least, of being perfectly happy with a husband who, neither in mind nor heart, was worthy of her. It was generally supposed (and I have no doubt correctly), that she found her great happiness and her great consolation in her little girl Ida—now the lady from whom we have just parted. The child took after her mother from the first—inheriting her mother’s fondness for books, her mother’s love of music, her mother’s quick sensibilities, and, more than all, her mother’s quiet firmness, patience, and loving-kindness of disposition. From Ida’s earliest years, Mrs. Welwyn undertook the whole superintendence of her education. The two were hardly ever apart, within doors or without. Neighbours and friends said that the little girl was being brought up too fancifully, was not enough among other children, was sadly neglected as to all reasonable and practical teaching, and was perilously encouraged in those dreamy and imaginative tendencies of which she had naturally more than her due share. There was, perhaps, some truth in this; and there might have been still more, if Ida had possessed an ordinary character, or had been reserved. The Lady of Glenwith Grange by Wilkie Collins. . 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Others, such as 'The Devil's Spectacles', 'Love's Random Shot' and 'Fie! Fie! or, the Fair Physician', Collins stated should not be republished: "These stories have served their purpose in periodicals, but are not worthy of republication in book form. They were written in a hurry, and the sooner they are drowned in the waters of oblivion the better. I desire that they shall not be republished after my death." First publication Original Title Later Titles First Appearance Republication 1843 Volpurno - or the Student The Albion, or British Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette Wilkie Collins Society 1843 The Last Stage Coachman The Illuminated Magazine Wilkie Collins Society 1851 The Twin Sisters Bentley's Miscellany 1851 The New Dragon of Wantley The Leader Wilkie Collins Society 1852 A Passage in the Life of Perugino Potts Bentley's Miscellany 1852 A Terribly Strange Bed The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed Household Words After Dark 1852 Nine O'Clock! Bentley's Miscellany 1853 Gabriel's Marriage The Nun's Story of Gariel's Marriage Household Words After Dark 1854 A Stolen Letter The Fourth Poor Traveller; The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter Household Words After Dark 1855 Mad Monkton The Monktons of Wincot Abbey; Brother Griffinth's Story of Mad Monkton Fraser's Magazine Queen of Hearts 1855 Sister Rose Household Words After Dark 1855 The Dream Woman The Ostler; Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream Woman Household Words The Queen of Hearts 1855 The Yellow Mask Household Words After Dark 1856 Anne Rodway The Diary of Anne Rodway; Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway Household Words The Queen of Hearts 1856 The Lady of Glenwith Grange After Dark 1857 A Fair Penitent Household Words 1857 The Black Cottage The Siege of the Black Cottage; Brother Owen's Story of the Black Cottage Harper's Monthly Magazine The Queen of Hearts 1857 The Dead Hand The Double-Bedded Room Brother Morgan's Story of the Dead Hand Household Words The Queen of Hearts 1857 The Family Secret Uncle George, or the Family Mystery; Brother Griffith's Story of the Family Secret The National Magazine The Queen of Hearts 1858 A Plot in Private Life A Marriage Tragedy; Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life Harper's Monthly Magazine The Queen of Hearts 1858 Fauntleroy A Paradoxical Experience; Brother Morgan's Story of Fauntleroy Household Words The Queen of Hearts 1858 The Biter Bit Who is the Thief?; Brother Griffith's Story of the Biter Bit The Atlantic Monthly The Queen of Hearts 1858 The Poisoned Meal A Case Worth Looking At Household Words My Miscellanies 1859 Blow Up With the Brig! The Ghost in the Cupboard Room All The Year Round Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in Outline 1859 The Parson's Scruple A New Mind; Brother Owen's Story of the Parson's Scruple Household Words The Queen of Hearts 1861 Memoirs of an Adopted Son A Case Worth Looking At All The Year Round My Miscellanies 1861 The Cauldron of Oil A Case Worth Looking At All The Year Round My Miscellanies 1861 The Fatal Cradle Picking Up Waifs at Sea All The Year Round Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in Outline 1871 Miss or Mrs? The Graphic Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in Outline 1874 A Mad Marriage A Fatal Fortune; A Sane Madman All The Year Round Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in Outline 1874 John Jago's Ghost The New Yok Fireside Companion; The Home Journal The Frozen Deep and Other Tales 1874 The Frozen Deep Temple Bar The Frozen Deep and Other Tales 1875 Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman The Clergyman's Confession The Canadian Monthly Little Novels 1876 Mr Captain and the Nymph The Captain's Last Love The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1877 Miss Bertha and the Yankee The Duel in Herne Wood The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1877 Mr Percy and the Prophet Percy and the Prophet All The Year Round Little Novels 1878 Miss Mina and the Groom A Shocking Story Barnes' International Review; Belgravia Annual Little Novels 1878 Mr Marmaduke and the Minister The Mystery of Marmaduke The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1879 Mrs Zant and the Ghost The Ghost's Touch Harper's Weekly Little Novels 1879 The Devil's Spectacles The Magic Spectacles The Spirit of the Times 1881 Miss Morris and the Stranger How I Married Him The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1881 Mr Cosway and the Landlady Your Money or Your Life The People's Library Little Novels 1881 Mr Policeman and the Cook Who Killed Zebedee? The Seaside Library Little Novels 1882 Fie! Fie! or, the Fair Physician The Spirit of the Times; Pictorial World Christmas Supplement 1883 Mr Lismore and the Widow She Loves and Lies The Spirit of the Times Little Novels [1883] A Little Fable Wilkie Collins Society 1884 Mr Lepel and the Housekeeper The Girl at the Gate The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1884 Mr Medhurst and the Princess Royal Love Longman's Magazine Little Novels 1884 Love's Random Shot The Seaside Library 1885 The Poetry Did It The Spirit of the Times 1886 Victims of Circumstances: A Sad and Brave Life Youth's Companion; The Boy's Own Paper Wilkie Collins Society 1886 Victims of Circumstances: Farmer Fairweather Youth's Companion; The Boy's Own Paper Wilkie Collins Society 1886 Victims of Circumstances: The Hidden Cash Youth's Companion Wilkie Collins Society 1886 Miss Dulane and My Lord An Old Maid's Husband The Spirit of the Times Little Novels 1887 The First Officer's Confession The Spirit of the Times. 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