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What if the person you trust most is the danger you cannot see?
In Blind Love, a woman's trust stands at the heart of a story where passion, secrets, and danger meet. Wilkie Collins brings romance and crime into an English setting, tying matters of the heart to money and political conspiracy. Love offers a reason to believe, but it can also make doubt feel impossible.
Behind the love story lies the troubled world of Irish unrest and the hidden motives that feed suspense. This is Collins's last novel, a sensation story in which private feelings meet wider dangers. Its central question is intimate and unsettling: what does a woman risk when she gives her trust where she should doubt?
What you’ll discover
- Trust under pressure Follow a love story that asks how deeply affection can cloud a person's judgment.
- Secrets close to home Enter an English world where private feelings become entangled with hidden motives and danger.
- The pull of money Discover how matters of money complicate a story already charged with passion and uncertainty.
- A darker political thread Trace the conspiracy behind the romance, set against the tensions of Irish unrest.
- Collins's final novel Explore his last story, where love and trust become questions full of danger.
Who will love it
Readers who like Victorian sensation fiction, plots full of letters, disguises and secrets, and a heroine whose heart pulls against her judgment. Fans of Collins who enjoy a scheming villain and a devoted maid will feel at home.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A teacup, a milestone and a letter
- Iris arrives and the trap is laid
- The milestone at night
- Warnings, a ruin and a riderless horse
- The sour wine and the doctor's house
- The spy unmasked and the parting in Passy
- A new maid, a razor and a quarrel with a father
- Paris, a jealous husband and a plot of paper
- The Dane, the hidden maid and what the story is about
Who’s who
- Iris HenleyA quick, warm-hearted young Englishwoman who loves a wild Irish lord against her better judgment and keeps risking herself to save him.
- Lord HarryA charming, reckless Irish nobleman with a wandering past, who wants to win Iris and a fortune, and cannot hold to his good intentions.
- Hugh MountjoyA steady, truthful and wealthy friend who loves Iris and tries to guard her from danger without asking for anything in return.
- Fanny MereIris's pale, quiet maid, saved from ruin by her mistress, who hates men and is determined to protect her from harm.
- Mr. VimpanyA burly, boastful doctor in constant need of money, who is cunning, unscrupulous and always ready with a new scheme.
- Mrs. VimpanyThe doctor's wife, once an actress and a paid spy, who grows fond of Iris and tries to make amends for her past.
- Sir Giles MountjoyA vain, timid Irish banker and Iris's godfather, who wants to marry her to his nephew Hugh and fears every plot.
- Mr. HenleyIris's hard and bitter father, a rich retired merchant who tests his daughter and cuts her off when she defies him.
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Blinde Liebe
by Wilkie Collins; Walter Besant · 1890
A banker's goddaughter dons his cloak to warn a hunted Irish lord, and her love for him begins to change her life.
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Blind Love is the last novel of Wilkie Collins, who died in 1889 with the book unfinished. Walter Besant completed it from the author's notes.
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A teacup, a milestone and a letter
The story opens in 1881 in the Irish town of Ardoon. Sir Giles Mountjoy, a knighted banker, wakes to find an unsigned letter on his table. It claims to concern someone in his own family and sets him two tests. His head clerk, Dennis Howmore, must find a piece of broken teacup behind the first milestone on the road to Garvan.
The second test sends the clerk to the Reading Rooms. There he must look in the third volume of Gibbon for a sheet of paper punched with tiny holes. Dennis takes the sheet to a journalist friend, who explains that it is a key to a cipher. A second letter arrives, written in muddled words, and the holes make it readable.
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What is Blind Love by Wilkie Collins about?
It follows Iris Henley, who loves Lord Harry, a reckless Irish nobleman. Hugh Mountjoy, Fanny Mere and the scheming Dr. Vimpany all shape her fate as secret societies, debts and a cunning plan close in.
Who finished Blind Love after Collins died?
Wilkie Collins died in 1889 with the novel unfinished. Walter Besant completed it from the author's notes, and the book appeared with both names on its title page.
Who are the Invincibles in Blind Love?
They are a secret society of Irish assassins in the story. They stand behind the murder in the prologue and hang over Lord Harry, who once joined them and then broke away.
The author
Wilkie Collins
1824–1889 · English mystery novelist
Wilkie Collins was a British novelist and playwright born in London in 1824. He lived mainly in London and died there in 1889. His novels include The Woman in White (1859–1860), The Moonstone (1868), The Law and the Lady (1875), and The Black Robe (1881).
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