Jezebel's Daughter (Annotated)

Jezebel's Daughter (1880) is a late sensation novel in which Wilkie Collins carries his familiar machinery of secrets, poison, disputed authority, and moral extremity into a mercantile Anglo-German setting. Centered on Mrs. Wagner's management of a Frankfurt business house and the sinister designs surrounding Madame Fontaine and her daughter, the novel combines domestic melodrama with social criti...