Our favorite snotty review comes from Dublin University Magazine in February 1861. They complained that the characters and plot were weak, the novel was all style and no substance, it was silly, and it wasn't "real" literature. When The Woman in White first appeared in November 1859 in Charles Dickens's periodical All the Year Round it was pretty much universally dismissed by critics. Before stuffy critics panned The Rocky Horror Picture Show (only to have it become pretty much the definition of an audience-participation event) before people decided that no one would ever like Evil Dead 2 and before reviews gave an enthusiastic two thumbs down to Donnie Darko, there was The Woman in White.
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