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BLACKMORE, RICHARD DODDRIDGE (1825-1900)

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RICHARD
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RICHARD See also:
DODDRIDGE, PHILIP (1702-1751)
DODDRIDGE (1825-1900) , See also:

ENGLISH

English novelist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 7th of See also:

JUNE

June 1825 at Longworth, Berk-See also:

SHIRE

shire, of which See also:

VILLAGE

village his See also:

FATHER

father was See also:

CURATE (from the Lat. curare, to take care of)

curate in See also:

charge. He was educated at Blundell's school, See also:

TIVERTON

Tiverton, and See also:

Exeter See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship. In 1847 he took a second class in See also:

CLASSICS

classics. Two years later he entered as a student at the See also:

MIDDLE

Middle See also:

Temple, and was called to the See also:

bar in 1852. His first publication was a See also:

VOLUME

volume of Poems by Melanter (1854), which showed no particular promise, nor did the succeeding volume, Epullia (1855), suggest that Blackmore had the makings of a poet. He was nevertheless enthusiastic in his pursuit of literature; and when, a few years later, the See also:

COMPLETE

complete breakdown of his See also:

HEALTH

health rendered it clear that he must remove from See also:

LONDON

London, he deter-See also:

MINED

mined to combine a See also:

LITERARY

literary See also:

LIFE

life in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country with a business career as a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market-gardener. He acquired See also:

LAND

land at See also:

TEDDINGTON

Teddington, and set earnestly to See also:

WORK

work, the literary fruits of his new surroundings being a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the Georgics, published in 1862. In 1864 he published his first novel, See also:

CLARA, SAINT (1194-1253)

Clara See also:

Vaughan, the merits of which were promptly recognized. See also:

CRADOCK

Cradock See also:

NOWELL, ALEXANDER (c. 1507-1602)

Nowell (1866) followed, but it was in 1869 that he suddenly sprang into fame with Lorna Doone. This See also:

FINE

fine See also:

story was a See also:

PIONEER

pioneer in the romantic revival; and appearing at a jaded See also:

HOUR

hour, it was presently recognized as a work of singular See also:

CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm, vigour and See also:

IMAGINATION

imagination. Its success could scarcely be repeated, and though Blackmore wrote many other See also:

capital stories, of which the best known are The Maid of Sker (1872), Christowell (188o), Perlycross (1894), Tales from the Telling See also:

House (1896) and Dariel (1897), he will always be remembered almost exclusively as the author of Lorna Doone. He continued his quiet country life to the last, and died at Teddington on the loth of See also:

JANUARY

January 190o, in his seventy-fifth See also:

YEAR

year.

Lorna Doone has the true out-of-See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere, is shot through and through with adventurous spirit, and in its dramatic moments shows both vigour and intensity. The heroine, though she is invested with qualities of faery which are scarcely human, is an idyllic and haunting figure; and See also:

John Ridd, the See also:

BLUFF (a word of uncertain origin; possibly connected with an obsolete Dutch word, blaf, broad)

bluff See also:

hero, is, both in purpose and achievement, a veritable See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant of See also:

ROMANCE

romance. The story is a classic of the See also:

West country, and the many pilgrimages that are made annually to the Doone Valley (the actual characteristics of which differ materially from the descriptions given in the novel) are entirely inspired by the buoyant imagination of Richard Blackmore. A memorial window and tablet to his memory were erected in Exeter See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral in 1904.

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