Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, 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.

Bibliography

See biography by W. H. Dunn (1956, repr. 1974); study by K. G. Budd (1960).