The Woman in White is a famous novel by Wilkie Collins and of plays based on the novel.

The Novel

Stage adaptations

The novel has been adapted in many ways over the years, including theatrical versions under various other titles.

The Woman in White by Sutton Vane Sr (1860s)

The original text

Translations and adaptations

The White Queen by Boulding/Palgrave(?) (1890s)

Not to be confused with Philippa Gregory's novel or the BBC series based on it.

The original text

An historical play set in the time of Louis XII, The White Queen is a dramatization of Wilkie Collins's mystery novel The Woman in White (), and was specifically written for the actress Lillian Bedard, said by her to be by "Palgrave of London" (other sources have is a play J.W. Boulding as the author).

The play was most successfully produced in London by Bedard, who later took it on her many international tours as part of her repertoire.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history of the various stage versions in South Africa

1867: [[The Woman in White}} performed (possibly in the Sutton Vane version) on 21 and 24 October and 4 November in Cape Town by the Le Roy and Duret Company.

1888-9 The White Queen performed by Lillian Beddard and her company in South Africa, inter alia at the Theatre Royal, Johannesburg, with Beddard as "Lady Mary".