Blind Love

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

Iris Henley, who hails from a respectable family but not one of nobility, is pressured by her father to wed Hugh Mountjoy, a well-respected and affluent man. Hugh is better suited to a lady of character, like Iris, but she can't help but be drawn to Lord Harry Norland, who has had a famous life. Lord Harry's close friend Hugh Mountjoy was murdered by a member of the Invincibles, and as retaliation, he turned himself into a marked man. Iris, his wife, received no financial assistance from her father, but she did have access to a little legacy from her mother, which she utilized to supplement her income. Lord Harry allowed himself to be seduced by a con artist and persuaded Iris to assist him in covering up for him when an investment he made with the majority of Iris' estate turned bad. There are a lot of regrets shown by many characters who are persuaded to take a terrible path but who finally rebel against their circumstances to make apologies, much like in real life, not everyone is all good or all bad. An excellent analysis of how even decent people may succumb to evil when they believe they have nowhere else to turn that is really well done.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357277945
Publisher:	Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date:	01/01/2023
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Wilkie Collins was born on January 8, 1824. He was the child of a famous scenery painter, William Collins. His life as a youngster started in 1835 at the Maida Hill Academy, followed by a long-term interference where he went with his folks and younger sibling, Charles, to France and Italy. He later reviewed that he had learned more in Italy 'among the view, the photos, and individuals, than I at any point scholarly at school.' After he returned to England, his tutoring continued at Cole's life experience school at High bury Place. It was here that he started his vocation as a narrator to pacify the residence bully. At age 22, Collins turned into a regulation understudy at London's Lincoln Inn. Collins was called to the bar in 1851, that very year he met writer Charles Dickens, with whom he kept firmly connected for the majority of his life, including voyaging together and teaming up on many works. Rather than providing legal counsel, Collin embraced writing as his calling. In 1848, a year after his dad passed on, he distributed his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. In his lifetime, he composed 25 books, over 50 brief tales, somewhere around 15 plays, and more than 100 verifiable pieces among 1848 and his passing in 1889. The genuine lady dressed in white was Caroline Graves who presumably met Wilkie in the spring of 1856. She was a widow, initially came from Gloucestershire, and had a youthful little girl, Harriet Elizabeth (generally known as Carrie). Caroline and Wilkie never hitched yet lived respectively from around 1858 for the most amazing aspect of 30 years. About 1864, in any case, Wilkie met the other lady in his life, Martha Rudd, potentially in Great Yarmouth close to her home in Winterton, or maybe in London where she might have come to fill in as a servant for his mom's home. Wilkie was 40 years of age while Martha was only 19. To give their contact level of decency, for they likewise never hitched, Wilkie and Martha accepted the characters of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, the name given to their three kids, Marian, Harriet, and Charley. Whether Martha's appearance caused the impermanent break between Wilkie and Caroline, or whether she gave him a final offer over marriage is dubious, however, in October 1868 Caroline out of nowhere hitched one, Joseph Clow. Carrie and Frank Beard were simply the observers while Collins was available at the function in Marylebone Parish Church. By April 1871, be that as it may, Caroline had gotten back to Gloucester Place and kept on residing with Wilkie until his passing in 1889. She passed on in 1895 and is covered in a similar grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.

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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