Punch,  40 (1861), 139.

Awful Apparition!

J L, pseud.  [John Leech] *

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

J L, pseud.  [John Leech] *

Subjects:

Reading, Mental Illness, Supernaturalism


    Shows a man sitting in a drawing room at night, who drops the book he is reading when his wife, clad in ghostly white bed garments, appears at the door. The woman asks her husband when he is going to come upstairs and stop reading 'that "Woman in White"'.



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