Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1890. William Wilkie Collins ( 8 January 1824 &ndash 23 September 1889) was an English Novelist, Playwright, and It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant. Sir Walter Besant ( August 14, 1836, Portsmouth - June 9, 1901, London) was a Novelist and Historian