Author:Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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English novelist, known professionally as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. Best known for his novel, Lorna Doone.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Works[edit]
- Poems by Melanter (1854)
- Epullia and other poems (1854)
- The Bugle of the Black Sea (1855)
- The Fate of Franklin (1860)
- The Farm and Fruit of Old: a translation in verse of the first and second Georgics of Virgil (1862)
- Clara Vaughan: a novel (1864)
- Cradock Nowell: a tale of the New Forest (1866)
- Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor (1869)
- The Maid of Sker (1872)
- Alice Lorraine: a tale of the South Downs (1875)
- Cripps the Carrier: a woodland tale (1876)
- Erema; or, my father's sin (1877)
- Mary Anerley: a Yorkshire tale (1880)
- Christowell: a Dartmoor tale (1882)
- Sir Thomas Upmore (1884)
- Springhaven: a tale of the Great War (1887)
- Kit and Kitty: a story of west Middlesex (1890)
- Perlycross: a tale of the western hills (1894)
- Fringilla: a tale in verse (1895)
- Tales from a Telling House (1896)
- Dariel: a romance of Surrey (1897)
Works about Blackmore[edit]
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (pp. 21−22), by John Hutchinson, London: Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (1902)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in Men-at-the-Bar (2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
- "Blackmore, Richard Doddridge," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
About his works[edit]
- "Lorna Doone," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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