And the following year, 1854, his literary career began with a collection of Poems and for the next 15 years he would write in the winters and garden in the summers.
In November 1853 he married his wife Lucy.
With much of his childhood spent in the lush and pastoral "Doone Country" of Exmoor, and along the Badgworthy Water, Blackmore came to love the very countryside he immortalised in Lorna Doone. His father married again in 1831, whereupon Richard returned to live with them. His elder brother Richard (by a year), however, was taken by his aunt to live near Oxford. With this loss the family moved to Bushey, Hertfordshire, then on to their native Devon. His mother died a few months after his birth the victim of an outbreak of typhus. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7 June 1825 at Longworth in Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire), where his father, John Blackmore, was Curate-in-charge of the parish. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of RD Blackmore. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon.The Short Stories Of RD Blackmore. Synopsis: First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. Stamp from the publisher along the front endpapers.
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