biography
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Blackmore, R(ichard) D(oddridge)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1825–1900)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Longworth, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1852, but poor health made him take to market gardening and literature in Teddington. Clara Vaughan (1864) was the first of 15 novels, mostly with a Devonshire background, of which Lorna Doone (1869) is his masterpiece and an accepted classic of the English West Country. |
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