Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Richard Doddridge Blackmore was an English novelist and market gardener. He is remembered for Lorna Doone, a romance set on Exmoor in the seventeenth century, which was published in 1869 and became one of the most popular novels of its time. He wrote with close attention to the landscape of southwest England. Several of his other novels, such as The Maid of Sker, also drew on regional settings.