The Woman in

Black
By Susan Hill
Title:
The Woman in
Black
Author:
Susan Hill
1983
The Author
Susan Hill
- THE AUTHOR

- She is an English writer (literary novels, ghost

stories, children’s books, detective novels and
memoirs.)
- She was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire
in 1942
• Her books have won awards and prizes
including the Whitbread and the John
Llewellyn Rhys and the Somerset Maugham

• SOURCES.
https://www.susanhill.org.uk/about/

https://
literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/susan-hill
 
Plot
The Woman in Black is a ghost story by Susan Hill,
in which Arthur Kipps relates his haunting
experiences at Eel Marsh House.

The tale begins on Christmas Eve, when Arthur's

step-children invite him to tell a ghost story. Arthur
is too disturbed by his memories to share his story
aloud, so he writes it down.
I'n his story, a young Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is sent to settle the affairs of
Alice Drablow. He sees a woman dressed in black at her funeral, though
apparently no one else does. At Eel Marsh House, a house beyond a causeway,
Arthur is haunted by noises and sightings of the woman. Eventually a local man,
Sam Daily, reveals the full story of how Alice Drablow's sister, Jennet, haunts the
house. He explains that a child dies each time the woman in black is seen. At the
end of the story, Arthur sees the woman in black again and his wife and son die
in a terrible accident.
Setting
The story has two parts: The past: Many years ago, Eel Marsh House, Crytin
Grifford, Yorkshire
The present: London, at about 1900.
Eduardian period.
 Characters
A solcitor, that has a terrible

Arthur Kipps
past..He si the Main characters Mr Bentley Arthur’s BOSS.
of the story.

The Woman un Jenner Humfrye, si an old

He is a real estate
fashioned dressed Woman who Mr. Jerome
Black ddied but couldn’t rest in peace.
in Crythin Gifford.

He is a rich man, who helps Arthur’s first wife who died

Samuel Dayli Arthur. Stella with their child in a pony
trap accident.

The current Arthur’s wife.

Mr Keckwick The pony trap driver. Esmé
 The story is told from a first person.
Arthur Kipps remember his terrible
Point of View past.
 Metaphor (describes something IS something
else) – ‘That great cavern of a railway station’ is
like saying that King’s Cross Station is an
enormous cave.

Imagery Simile (compares something by saying it is AS

or LIKE something else) – ‘It was a mist like a
damp, clinging cobwebby thing.’ Arthur like a
cobweb.

Personification (gives human qualities to

something inanimate) - ‘The wind will blow itself
out and take the rain off it by morning,’ says
Samuel Daily to Arthur making the wind and rain
sound almost like a human couple.
Adaptation
s
1989, a television versión

1993 BBC 5 broadcasting versión

2004, BBC4 broadcasting versión

2012, a film starring Daniel

Radcliffe in the role of Arthur Kipps,
and directed by James Watkins
Opinion