Story summary
Samenvatting van Blinde liefde
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- 10 parts
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In 1881 Ardoon, a broken teacup behind a milestone sets Iris Henley on a road that leads her to Lord Harry.
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Blinde liefde in het kort
Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 8 h 15 min6 h 35 min fast, 9 h 50 min slow
- Lengte
- 117.800 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1890by Wilkie Collins; Walter Besant
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Blinde liefde in short
Blind Love begins with a banker who will not trust a warning and ends with a woman who learns, too late, what her trust has cost. Between those points, Iris Henley chooses a reckless man over a steady one, saves him three times, and marries him. Money troubles and a doctor with a plan draw the couple into a secret scheme.
What Blinde liefde is about
What would you do if a letter told you to look behind a milestone for a broken teacup? In Ardoon, Ireland, in 1881, the banker Sir Giles Mountjoy sends his head clerk on just such an errand. The strange task grows into a story of secret societies and a crime planned with cold care.
Blind Love is a Victorian thriller by Wilkie Collins, who died in 1889 before he could finish it. Walter Besant brought it to its close. It follows Iris Henley, who loves a reckless Irish lord named Harry, while her steady friend Hugh Mountjoy loves her. You get the people who drive the plot and the ideas beneath it.
Voor wie is het?. You will enjoy this if you like Victorian suspense with a strong heroine, secret plots, doctors with dark motives, and love and conscience pulling against each other.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A broken teacup starts the trouble
The book opens in the Irish town of Ardoon in 1881. Sir Giles Mountjoy, a banker who loves his own importance, wakes to find a letter on his table. It demands two proofs of his good faith. He sends for his head clerk, Dennis Howmore.
Dennis must look behind the first milestone on the road to Garvan, where he finds only a piece of a broken teacup. Then he must open the third volume of Gibbon at the Reading Rooms. Between two pages lies a sheet of paper pierced with tiny holes. Sir Giles explains nothing, and his clerk is hurt.
A second letter arrives, written in a muddle of broken words. Dennis lays the holed paper over it, and clear sentences appear. The writer gives one firm order: do not go to the police. Sir Giles sees a plot against his life. Dennis notices the words one of your family and thinks of Arthur, the banker's nephew. The banker waves the idea away, because a vain man hears only what flatters him. A warning ignored out of vanity sets the whole story moving.
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Iris goes to the milestone in disguise
Into this tangle walks Iris Henley, the banker's goddaughter, who has left her father's London house after a quarrel.
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A wild lord, a farm, and a shot
Iris reaches the village near Arthur's farm and finds Mrs. Lewson, her old nurse, now Arthur's housekeeper.
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Sour French wine in Honeybuzzard
The story jumps to Honeybuzzard, a dying English town.
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The claret trap and the confession
Hugh decides the only way to learn the truth is through Mrs. Vimpany's husband, a burly surgeon who plays the plain country farmer.
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Fanny Mere and the man on the Heath
Four months pass, and Iris is back in her father's house.
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Paris, a jealous husband, and a plan
Harry tells Hugh he will insure his life to provide for Iris.
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Love that cannot see what it loves
The title points to one idea.
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Money, deceit, and who watches whom
The second theme is deceit, and the book shows it as a habit that grows.
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How the story is told
Collins tells the story with a narrator who often steps forward to comment.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Iris Henley A warm, quick, stubborn young woman who loves Lord Harry against all advice and will do anything to protect those she cares for.
- Lord Harry A charming, reckless Irish lord with a wild past, who wants Iris and money in equal measure and cannot keep out of trouble.
- Hugh Mountjoy A steady, rich, loyal Englishman who loves Iris, accepts her refusals, and keeps trying to protect her from the man she chose.
- Mr. Vimpany A bluff, coarse country doctor with a taste for drink and money, who is always ready to profit from a friend's weakness.
- Mrs. Vimpany The doctor's artful ex-actress wife, who spies for Lord Harry and then comes to care for Iris and tries to make amends.
- Fanny Mere A pale, silent lady's maid with a hard past, who guards Iris with fierce devotion and watches everyone with sharp eyes.
- Sir Giles Mountjoy An Irish banker, vain and anxious, Iris's godfather and Hugh's uncle, who trusts his own importance more than any warning.
- Dennis Howmore Sir Giles's head clerk, shrewd and obstinate, who decodes the mysterious letters and suspects the real danger lies with Arthur.
How it ends (spoiler)
Lord Harry sees that his fraud has cost Iris her peace. After she learns the truth about the sick stranger's death, she leaves him, repays what she can, and hides in a villa Hugh gives her. Harry returns the insurance money and travels through Dublin to Kerry, where the Invincibles follow him onto a lonely road. Two years later, Mr. Vimpany returns to demand money, and a storm and a scream end the book.
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What is Blind Love by Wilkie Collins about?
It follows Iris Henley, who loves the reckless Irish lord Harry against everyone's advice, while Hugh Mountjoy loves her. It moves from Irish plots to a doctor's schemes and a risky fraud, and asks what love will excuse.
Who finished Blind Love after Wilkie Collins?
Walter Besant completed the novel after Collins's health failed. Collins died in 1889. The later chapters follow the plans laid earlier, with shorter scenes that move quickly toward the final events.
Who are the Invincibles in Blind Love?
The Invincibles are a secret society of assassins in Ireland, based on the real political violence of the early 1880s. Lord Harry joins them, and later he tries to leave, which makes him a danger to himself.
Is Blind Love easy to follow?
Short chapters, clear scenes, and a lively narrator make it easy to follow. The chapters build suspense through discoveries and reversals, and the doctor and Fanny Mere give the story humor and tension.
What is the main message of Blind Love?
The book shows that love can blind a good person to a partner's faults, and that small deceits grow into large ones. It also praises loyalty and clear sight, shown best by Hugh and Fanny.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Collins, Wilkie, and Walter Besant. Blind Love. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/blind-love.
Collins, W., & Besant, W. (2026). Blind love. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/blind-love (Original work published 1890)
Collins, Wilkie, and Walter Besant. Blind Love. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/blind-love.
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title = {Blind Love},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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note = {First published 1890}
}
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