The Woman in Black plot summary

• The Woman in Black

  A ghost story
• The story starts


  PRESENT day
• Arthur Kipps


  A young solicitor
• CRYTHIN GIFFORD


  A town Kipps is sent to
• Alice Drablow


  A recently deceased woman whose affairs Kipps is sent to settle
• Eel Marsh House


  Where Alice Drablow lived as a recluse for many years
• SAM DAILY


  A man Kipps meets on the train who takes an interest in Kipps' trip
• MR JEROME


  The agent who denies seeing the woman in black at Alice's funeral
• Accessing Eel Marsh House

  1. Causeway can only be accessed at certain times of day

  2. Kipps relies on KECKWICK to get there and back
• Burial ground


  Found near the house
• Kipps sees the woman in black

  She disappears as if she was never there
• Kipps hears disturbing sounds

  Pony and trap being dragged into the quicksand, and a child's terrified sobs
• SPIDER


  Samuel Daily's dog that Kipps takes with him to Eel Marsh House
• Kipps hears noises in the night

  Bumps and rumbles coming from behind a locked door
• Jennet


  A relative of Alice's who had a child out of wedlock and was forced to give him up
• Kipps hears the sound of the pony and trap drowning


  Realises it must be the ghostly sounds from an actual incident
• Kipps gets the impression someone passed him on the landing


  But he doesn't see or hear anything
• Spider falls into the marshes


  Kipps rescues her from drowning
• Kipps sees the woman in black

  He faints
• NATHANIEL


  Jennet's son who drowned
• Jennet's ghost has been seen every time a child has died in mysterious circumstances</b>
• Kipps sees the woman in black


  She steps in front of the pony and trap, causing an accident that kills Stella and Joseph