![]() ![]() Frank is not one to give up so easily he follows the governess and threatens to take his own life if he is prevented from marrying his beloved. This alliance, however, does not meet the approval of his father, who takes it upon himself to send the governess, Miss Smith, away with first-rate references and a generous monetary compensation. In his story, Frank, the son of a rich country squire, falls in love with his younger sister’s governess and is intent on marrying her. Boxsious, recounts the time he helped out his young friend, Mr. While sitting for his portrait, an attorney, Mr. The story was subsequently reprinted in After Dark (1856) as “The Lawyer’s Story of a Stolen Letter.” At this time, Wilkie Collins was a protégé of Dickens. “The Stolen Letter” was originally published as “The Fourth Poor Traveller” in The Seven Poor Travellers, the extra Christmas number of Charles Dickens’s Household Words (December 1854). Analysis of Wilkie Collins’s The Lawyer’s Story of a Stolen Letter ![]()
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