How long does it take to read The Woman in White?
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins takes about 10 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1859. 545 pages, about 149,875 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 653 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, Apparitions, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Psychiatric hospital patients
