This chapter shows how the narrative shape of one of Wilkie Collins's most baroquely plotted, narratively complex novels is inextricably enmeshed with its thematic material. It refers to No Name, a novel whose subversion of fictional omniscience suggests Collins's radical literary practice and whose sympathy for a rebellious heroine in search of subjectivity suggests his liberal sexual politics. Wilkie Collins was the son of a well-known landscape painter and was educated at several London private schools. Challenging authoritarian, patriarchal-sited power in his interrogation of form and theme, Collins collapses a binary opposition between the two, a separation assumed in Victorian criticism of the novel and still, perhaps, possessing a lingering appeal in these deconstructive times. Characterized by her husband as “constitutionally torpid” and declared by Lewis Carroll to be an uncanny anticipation of his White Queen, Mrs. Wragge is a physical marvel.