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The Mirror By Léo Lespès From The Strand Magazine

The Mirror from The Strand Magazine by Léo Lespès (Romance) The Strand Magazine was first issued in January 1891. The Editors idea was for it to contain stories and articles by the Best British writers, and special translations from the first foreign authors. Plus special new features which had not hitherto found place in Magazine Literature. For example: one of the Strand Magazines, now most famous writers, was Arthur Conan Doyle, when he first introduced Sherlock Holmes to its readers. The Mirror is based on a series of eight letters written by a young woman to her friend whom she tells of her life as a blind woman protected from the world by her parents and how she meets and falls in love with a sighted man whom she marries and her reaction to not being able to see her child. Opening : Dear Kate, you wish me to write to you, me, a poor blind creature whose hand moves faltering in the darkness? Are you not afraid of the sadness of my letters, written as they are in gloom? Have you no fear of the sombre thoughts which must beset the blind?

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