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19 hours ago · Lorna Doone online. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, [1] published 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 Valley area of Exmoor. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's ...
- Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- 1869
Jul 28, 2024 · Lorna Doone : a romance of Exmoor / by Blackmore, R. D. 1825-19. (Richard Doddridge), Collection upenn; americana Contributor University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Jul 13, 2024 · First published in 1869, "Lorna Doone" is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon.
Jul 17, 2024 · Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor — Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900 — 1909. A historical romance, Lorna Doone is set in 17th-century Devonshire at the time of the rebellion of the duke of Monmouth.
Jul 13, 2024 · Lorna Doone is, besides being a rollicking good story, a very writerly book. What Blackmore achieves here is probably the most genuinely poetic prose to be found in any 19th Century British fiction; which is to say, that every sentence has a rhythmic lilt and that every phrase was worked over, not just flung on….
Jul 27, 2024 · a romantic novel (1869) by the English author R D Blackmore (1825-1900). It is set on Exmoor in the 17th century, and tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl called Lorna Doone. Unfortunately she is from the family who murdered his father.
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4 days ago · The full title of the novel is 'Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor' and it was published in 1869. The heroine is an apparent member of the Doone clan, notorious for their wild, and illegal, ways. She meets the farmer John Ridd, whose father was killed by one of the Doones, and they fall in love.
