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

fashioned dressed Woman who Mr. Jerome He is a real estate
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