Blind Love

by Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant

Overview

Unjustly neglected tale of Victorian master storyteller's later period. 'Blind love' of Iris Henley for notorious Lord Harry Norland has inexorable consequences leading to fiendish crime. Based on a real-life case, enlivened by Collins' intricate plotting and colorful characters. 16 full-page illustrations by A. Forestier. Preface by Walter Besant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775458807
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	584 KB

About the Author

Maria K. Bachman is Assistant Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina.

Don Richard Cox is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Both editors also co-edited Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins (University of Tennessee Press, 2003).

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

• Historical Context: The Irish Question
  Wilkie Collins’s Response to the Irish Question
  Anglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist Agenda
  Wilkie Collins and the “Woman Question”
  The Von Scheurer Fraud
  Blind Love: The History and Evolution of the Text

William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

Blind Love

Appendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins

1. “Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Times, 24 September 1889
2. “The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Illustrated London News, 28 September 1889
3. “Obituary.Wilkie Collins,” The Academy, 28 September 1889

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins’s Work

1. Edmund Yates, “The Works of Wilkie Collins,” Temple Bar, August 1890
2. Meredith White Thompson,“Wilkie Collins,” The Spectator, 28 September 1889
3. George Cotterell, “New Novels,” The Academy, 15 March 1890
4. “Blind Love,” New York Tribune, 23 January 1890
5. Andrew Lang, “Mr. Wilkie Collins’s Novels,” Contemporary Review, January 1890
6. Harold Quilter, “In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins,” The Universal Review, 5, 1889

Appendix C: Horace Pym’s Notes on the Von Scheurer Case

Appendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial

1. “The Scheurer Frauds,” The Times, 25 April 1888
2. “France,” The Times, 26 April 1888
3. “France,” The Times, 27 April 1888

Appendix E: The Prologue to “Iris,” Manuscript “C,” 1887

Appendix F: Excerpts from Collins’s Plans for Blind Love: The Synopsis

1. The Cast of Characters
2. The Synopsis

Appendix G: The Irish Question

1. Accounts from The Times, 1882
2. The Irish as Depicted in Punch, 1866, 1881, 1882

Appendix H: The Duties of the Lady’s Maid

Select Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

This edition of Collins’s Blind Love offers the best of modern scholarship—it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview’s series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions.” — A.D. Hutter, UCLA

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