The Black Robe

The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one «Lewis Romayne», is noted for its anti-Catholic lens. Romayne returns to his Yorkshire home. Even in his own home, the dying screams of the young man he killed follow him. Romayne finally leaves for London to visit his old friend Lord Loring. Excerpt: «THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick. When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial…»