Blackmore, Richard Doddridge

Richard Doddridge (1825-1900), an English novelist. He was a native of Berkshire and was educated for the law, but took to writing tales of English life. His one success is Lorna Doone, published in 1869. It is a story of an English farmstead and a band of robber Doones. Lorna is the heroine. It ranks certainly among the best of English novels. Of a score of volumes written by the same author Clara Vaughan and Alice Lorraine may be mentioned, but the best of these is not to be compared with Lorna Doone.