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Jun 07, 1825 Longworth, England, United Kingdom Died on 20 Jan 1900 (aged 74)

English novelist

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About R. D. Blackmore

  • Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), known 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.Blackmore, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", was a pioneer of the movement in fiction that continued with Robert Louis Stevenson and others.
  • He has been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred." Apart from his novel Lorna Doone, which has enjoyed continuing popularity, his work has gone out of print.

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