Man and Wife
Author: Wilkie Collins
Man and Wife (1870) combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collins’s most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain. At its centre is the plight of a woman who fears that the archaic marriage laws of Scotland and Ireland may have forced her into committing unintentional bigamy. As the novel progresses, the at….Read More
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