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R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), remembered today primarily for Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869), began his professional career as a poet. His three undersized volumes of poems, published in 1854 and 1855, stirred up no interest among readers, and no enthusiasm from reviewers.
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Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy / A Biography ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982 ), p. 179.
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Orel, H. (1995). Richard Doddridge Blackmore and Springhaven (1887). In: The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371491_8
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