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    Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half...
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    Lorna Doone (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is an 1869 novel by the English author R. D. Blackmore. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set...
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    to have been first coined by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone, which appeared in 1869. Blackmore appears to have derived this...
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    The Maid of Sker (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    The Maid of Sker is a three-volume novel that was written by R. D. Blackmore and published in 1872. The novel is set in the late 18th century and is about...
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  • Bean and Clive Owen. It is based on the 1869 novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore set in the West Country during Monmouth's Rebellion. It was made by...
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    Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist. He was a founding member and the lead guitarist of Deep Purple, playing jam-style...
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  • Annie Proulx The World According to Garp by John Irving Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye...
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  • Richard Greene. It is an adaptation of the 1869 novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore, set in the English West Country during the 17th century. Lorna Doone...
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  • Sherriff R. D. Blackmore – Richard Doddridge Blackmore R. E. Vernède – Robert Ernest Vernède R. G. Collingwood – Robin George Collingwood R. H. Mottram –...
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    is usually open to visitors. One ex-Blundell's boy was the writer R. D. Blackmore, who in the novel Lorna Doone set the stage for a fight between John...
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    preceding monastic grange. The house was made famous as the basis of R. D. Blackmore's book The Maid of Sker. Sker House was constructed about 900 years...
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  • 1956), former American football defensive back R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), English novelist Richie Blackmore (rugby league) (born 1969), New Zealand rugby...
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  • Backward by Edward Bellamy Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale by Thomas Nickerson and...
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  • Wales—made famous by The Maid of Sker, the three-volume novel written by R. D. Blackmore. The folklore story of the same name titled Y Ferch o'r Sger in Welsh...
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  • Peter Blackmore (politician) (born 1945), Australian politician and mayor of Maitland R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), English novelist Rachael Blackmore (born...
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    Cradock Nowell (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Cradock Nowell: a tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows...
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  • 1963 British TV adaptation of the 1869 romance novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore. It aired on the BBC and ran for 11 episodes of 30 minutes each. It...
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    Springhaven (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Springhaven: a tale of the Great War is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1887. It is set in Sussex, England, during the time of the...
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    Cripps the Carrier (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Cripps the Carrier: a woodland tale, is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone. It was first published in 1876 and is set in and...
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    7 December 2013. Blackmore, David. "The Five Lives of R. D. Blackmore". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 7 December 2013. Blackmore, R.D. (1894). Perlycross...
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    spent with thee". (Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832) Later, R. D. Blackmore set part of his novel Lorna Doone (first published in 1869) in the...
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    Perlycross (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1894. The story is set in eastern Devon around 1830. Perlycross was Blackmore's penultimate novel, published...
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  • Edward wrote a book about the author R.D. Blackmore and his book Lorna Doone titled The Facts on which R.D. Blackmore based Lorna Doone. He also wrote an...
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    in March 1912, it was possibly named after the main character in R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel, Lorna Doone, but no record exists as to the exact motivation...
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  • October 2017. Max Keith Sutton (1979). R. D. Blackmore. Twayne Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8057-6756-8. Williams, Guy R. (1975). London in the Country. Hamish...
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    Dariel (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Dariel: a romance of Surrey is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves...
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    Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth....
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    Christowell (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Christowell: a Dartmoor tale is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1882. It is set in the fictional village of Christowell on the eastern...
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    Mary Anerley (category Novels by R. D. Blackmore)
    Mary Anerley: a Yorkshire tale is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1880. It is set in the rugged landscape of Yorkshire's North Riding...
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  • Louisa May Alcott 1868 Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. 1868 Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1869 Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Juliana Horatia Ewing 1869 Twenty...
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