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Poor Miss Finch, [31] 17; No Name, [48] 58

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20110901094716 Caroline Moore on Wilkie Collins, Slightly Foxed Issue 31, B. Lodge

The Long Arm of Coincidence

Caroline Moore on Wilkie Collins, Poor Miss Finch

Can you resist a Victorian novel featuring a blind heroine and identical twins, rivals for her love – one of whom turns dark blue in the course of the novel? If not, read no further, but rush off and buy Poor Miss Finch. For readers who have not yet discovered this novel, I shall try not to give too much away. Those of us who love Victorian fiction do so because it panders to our narrative greed. Résumés spoil the appetite.
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Where There’s a Will

Andrew Lycett on Wilkie Collins, No Name

Both The Woman in White and The Moonstone are clever and absorbing. But where should one go in Collins’s work after them? Armadale is fascinating but dauntingly complex, with its two cousins of the same name. For an easier point of entry, and a gripping read, I always recommend No Name (1862). As its title playfully implies, it’s about loss of identity – another favourite topic, in this case arising in typical Collins manner from a botched will.

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