After the rediscovery of Wilkie Collins’ novel The Woman in White in the late twentieth-century as a text which is eligible for critical literary analysis, it has been subject to scrutiny by varied critics. Initially, as a periodical serial at a journal turned into a bestseller novel, it received remarkable responses from readers, as well as critics who delved into its pages. It brought about a new genre ‘sensation fiction’; beguiling plot-centered novels, which focused on stories woven around criminals that also combines gothic elements with romantic fiction, which paved the nineteenth-century detective story, herewith studied by genre critics, however; it needs to be investigated considering gender and class politics issues by virtue of its salient engagement with women’s representation and social formation; ergo, this study will serve as a critical paper of analyzing Collins’ novel in terms of gender and class politics. Besides being a story about the struggle of a group of people from different social classes to protect a vulnerable woman against the conspiracy of villains, Collins also reflected conditions of social classes and status of women in the period; he pictured the unequal balance between women and men, higher class and lower class in the book, in which he ended up in supporting middle-class values to maintain order. If scrutinized well, the book itself reveals the collapse of oppressor / oppressed dynamics, by which the inevitable base of class-based society and patriarchy, and it emphasizes the need for belonging to middle class to acquire an identity for both women and men.