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Richard Doddridge Blackmore

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore 1825–1900, English novelist. Although trained as a lawyer and called to the bar, he abandoned his legal career because of ill health. His reputation rests chiefly on his romantic novel about the 17th-century outlaws of Exmoor, Lorna Doone (1869), but he wrote also 13 other novels—including The Maid of Sker (1872) and Springhaven (1887)—and several volumes of poetry.

Bibliography: See biography by W. H. Dunn (1956, repr. 1974); study by K. G. Budd (1960).

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Blackmore, R. D.

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Blackmore, R. D. ( Richard Doddridge Blackmore) (1825–1900), published several volumes of poems and translations from Theocritus and Virgil, but his fame rests almost entirely on one of his novels, Lorna Doone (1869). He wrote 13 other novels, including Cradock Nowell (1866), The Maid of Sker (1872), Alice Lorraine (1875), and Springhaven (1887). The great excellence of these pastoral tales is the intricacy of their descriptions of lovingly-observed climate, wildlife, and vegetation.

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Blackmore, R.D. ( Richard Doddridge) (1825–1900) English novelist and poet. Blackmore wrote several novels and many volumes of poetry, but is chiefly known for the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869).

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DOONE ROAMING......... Frank Barrett finds Exmoor a far cry from the lawless...
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 3/19/2000