A creation of Frances Hodgson Burnett, The White People (1920) presents the story of a young lady searching for her love in the Scottish Highlands. After the death of her first son, Burnett began researching spiritualism and finally adopted it as a way to deal with her grief. During the First World War, she penned her beliefs in the form of this novella about life after death. It is a realistic story with the most remarkable twists.