"Poor Miss Finch" by Wilkie Collins tells the story of a young blind woman, Lucilla Finch, who regains her sight through a surgery performed by an optic surgeon. The plot revolves around Lucilla's challenges and adaptations to the world after gaining her sight, her relationships with the twin brothers who love her, and the various eccentric characters surrounding her. Wilkie Collins weaves a tale of deception, identity issues, and disguises, exploring themes of blindness, love, and the complexities of human emotions.
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Potential content warnings include discussions of blindness, societal stigma, and themes of deception.
Has Romance?
The romance aspect is present but is complemented by dramatic elements and character interactions.
From The Publisher:
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations.
Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century.
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