The publication of The Woman in White drove up sales for the magazine, and inspired a great deal of public interest.
The Woman in White's serial form further heightened the readers’ excitement, out of their impatience to discover the plot developments that the next installment would bring. In the United States, the novel was serialized in Harper's Magazine during the same time period. The novel was published in 40 weekly installments between Novemand August 25, 1860. The Woman in White was published as a series in All the Year Round, a magazine owned by Collins’ best friend Charles Dickens. Thus, he created the scene where Anne Catherick escapes from the mental asylum in the beginning of the story. He initially planned to set the beginning of the story in Cumberland, but then read in the newspaper the story of a patient escaping from an asylum. Wilkie Collins was immediately fascinated by this story and resolved to write a story with a similar plot line. In this book, there is a story of a French widow who is drugged by her brother and then imprisoned in a mental asylum under a false name. Wilkie Collins found the inspiration for The Woman in White from a French book entitled Recueil des causes célèbres.
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