The novel was extremely successful commercially, but contemporary critics were generally hostile.[5] Modern critics and readers regard it as Collins's best novel:[5] a view with which Collins concurred, as it is the only one of his novels named in his chosen epitaph: "Author of The Woman in White and other works of fiction".[6]
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