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| Blackmore, Richard Doddridge |
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| 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. | 1 | | See biography by W. H. Dunn (1956, repr. 1974); study by K. G. Budd (1960). | 2 |
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