Poor Miss Finch

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. Collins was a good friend of Charles Dickens and they collaborated on several works. With classics such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, No Name, and Armadale, he remains one of the most widely read authors today. Poor Miss Finch, published in 1872, is a novel that tells the story of a young blind woman who finds herself in a love triangle with two brothers.