John Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer in the 17th century Exmoor, a region in North Devon and Somerset, England. A notorious Doone clan, once nobles and now outlaws, murdered John’s father. … See more

Blackmore experienced difficulty in finding a publisher, and the novel was first published anonymously in 1869, in a limited three-volume edition of just 500 copies, of which only 300 sold. The following year it … See more

The book received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy. George Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother … See more

By his own account, Blackmore relied on a "phonologic" style for his characters' speech, emphasising their accents and word formation. He expended great effort, in all of his novels, on his characters' dialogues and dialects, striving to recount realistically not only … See more

• Lorna Doone is also a shortbread cookie made by Mondelez.
• Title character Lorna Doone, a B-movie actress in a Thomas Tryon novella was christened in honour of Blackmore's character.
• Lorna Doone was said to be the favourite book of … See more

• Blackmore, R. D. (1908) Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor; Doone-land edition; with introduction and notes by H. Snowden Ward and illustrations by Mrs. Catharine Weed Ward. lii, 553 pp., plates. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company (includes "Slain by … See more

• Lorna Doone at Standard Ebooks
• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor at Project Gutenberg
• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor at Project Gutenberg – a lavishly illustrated edition (Burrows Brothers Company, 1889) See more