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Fictional character
Rachel Verinder
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Miss Verinder confronting Franklin Blake
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Created by
| Wilkie Collins
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Gender
| Female
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Family
| Sir John Verinder (father)
Lady Julia Verinder (mother)
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Spouse
| Franklin Blake
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Relatives
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- Lord Herncastle (grandfather)
- Mrs Merridew (aunt)
- Arthur Herncastle (uncle)
- John Herncastle (uncle)
- Adelaide Blake (aunt)
- Caroline Ablewhite (aunt)
- Drusilla Clack
(cousin)
- Franklin Blake (cousin/husband)
- two Blake children (cousins)
- Godfrey Ablewhite
(cousin)
- the three Miss Ablewhites (cousins)
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Nationality
| British
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Rachel Verinder
is a character in
Wilkie Collins
' 1868 novel
The Moonstone
.
[1]
Despite being the heroine, the story is never related from her viewpoint, as it is in turn from the other main protagonists, leaving her character always seen from the outside.
Character
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A somewhat spoilt and self-reliant girl, Rachel is in love with her cousin Frankin Blake.
P. D. James
saw her as one of the examples of Collins' rare (Victorian) ability to depict women capable of real desire:
[2]
With her temper, insistence on making her own decisions, and readiness to grapple with the social implications of her passion for a man she thinks of as a thief, Rachel has been seen as a prototype of the
New Woman
, as anticipated in the
sensation novel
.
[3]
Media treatments
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The Moonstone
has often been portrayed in film.
In the
1934 adaptation
,
Phyllis Barry
appears as Rachel (or Ann Verinder, as she was therein called).
[4]
See also
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References
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- ^
Collins, Wilkie (1868).
The Moonstone
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P. D. James, Introduction, Wilkie Collins,
The Moonstone
(Oxford 1999) p. 10
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G. Law,
Wilkie Collins
(2008) p. 82 and p. 98
- ^
Barker, Reginald (1934).
The Moonstone
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