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Richard Doddridge Blackmore known as RD Blackmore was born on the 7th June 1825 in the village of Longworth, which has a lovely old manor house and an interesting ancient church.
Poems by Melanter (1854)
Epullia and other poems (1854)
The Bugle of the Black Sea (1855)
The Fate of Franklin (1860)
Farm and Fruit of Old: an illustration 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, or Slain by the Doones: four short stories (1895)
Dariel: a romance of Surrey (1897)
Upon his death at the age of 74, a well-attended funeral in Teddington Cemetery,
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