ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lorna Doone, fictional heroine of the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore. The novel is set in 17th-century Exmoor, a remote area of Devon, England, and concerns a virtuous and somewhat mysterious young woman who has been raised by bandits who abducted her when she was young.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lorna Doone, historical romance by R.D. Blackmore, published in 1869. Set in the wilds of Exmoor (northern Devonshire, Eng.) during the late 17th century, the novel concerns the adventurous life of the yeoman John Ridd and the circuitous course of his love for Lorna Doone, a beautiful maiden.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beginning with Clara Vaughan (which contains an episode at Heddon’s Mouth) in 1864, then Craddock Nowell (set in the New Forest) in 1866, he produced fifteen novels. Of these much the best known, though not the author’s favourite, is Lorna Doone (1869).

Detailed explanation-5: -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. 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.