The Dream Woman

Inside this edition

Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 14 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.

• The Dream Woman - Principal Characters
• Percy, Clotilde and Rigobert - Identity and Continuity
• Francis Raven - The Haunted HostlerThe worn stableman whose birthday fear and remembered dream shape the nested testimony.
• Alicia Warlock - The Dream WomanFrancis's pale, grey-eyed wife, whose living face repeats the woman first seen in his dream.
• Percy Fairbank - The First NarratorThe practical English gentleman who encounters Francis at Underbridge and later employs him in France.
• Clotilde Fairbank - The Watchful MistressPercy's sympathetic and determined wife, whose concern keeps Francis under observation.
• Farleigh Hall to Underbridge - The Lame Horse RouteThe supported sequence from the hunting country to the desolate inn after Clotilde's horse strains a tendon.
• The Dream at Two - Room, Window and QuarryA symbolic diagram distinguishing Francis's dream chamber from its later moonlit waking echo by the quarry.

This edition

Title

The Dream Woman

Author

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)

First published

1909

Illustrated plates

61 original artworks · 14 open to everyone

Chapters

16 · about 21,270 words

Reading time

1 h 25 min

Language

EN

Formats

Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription

Publisher

LitLab — The Illustrated Classics

On LitLab since

August 2026

Rights

Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.