R. D. Blackmore
1825–1900
Biography
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) was an English novelist whose work belongs to the second half of the nineteenth century. The 1881 census records him at Teddington, near London, with the occupation of barrister, but it is his fiction for which he is remembered.
Blackmore is often compared with Thomas Hardy, since both wrote about the west of England and gave its countryside a strong sense of place. Readers have admired his vivid descriptions of the landscape and his habit of giving the land an almost personal character. Some critics have called him the last of the great Victorian novelists, and he is also seen as an early figure in the late-century revival of romantic adventure that Robert Louis Stevenson later carried further.
Most of his other books have gone out of print, but Lorna Doone, published in 1869, has stayed popular. It is set on Exmoor in the seventeenth century and is narrated by John Ridd, a young farmer who falls in love with Lorna, a girl brought up among the Doones, a family of outlaws who live in a hidden valley on the moor. The book on this site is the one through which most readers still come to him.
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Books
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
by R. D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a historical novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn…
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