Lorna is not a Doone after all, but heiress to a huge fortune. A family friend soon discovers the necklace belonged to a Lady Dugal, who was robbed and murdered by outlaws. Sir Ensor had told Lorna the necklace was her mother’s. During a visit from the Counsellor, Carver's father and the wisest Doone, Lorna's necklace is stolen. Since Lorna is a Doone the Ridds have mixed feelings toward her but defend her against Carver's retaliatory attack.
John helps Lorna escape to his family's farm. Sir Ensor dies, and Carver becomes lord of the Doones. Jan Ridd learns to fire his father's gun – from an 1893 illustrated edition The composer Puccini once considered using the story as the plot for an opera, but abandoned the idea. Along with the historical aspects are folk traditions, such as the many legends based around both the Doones and Tom Faggus. The basis for Blackmore's historical understanding is Macaulay's History of England and its analysis of the Monmouth rebellion. Īccording to the preface, the work is a romance and not a historical novel, because the author neither "dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel." As such, it combines elements of traditional romance, of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel tradition, of the pastoral tradition, of traditional Victorian values, and of the contemporary sensation novel trend. Apparently, Blackmore invented the name "Lorna", possibly drawing on a Scottish source. Unlike the heroine of the novel, she did not survive, but is commemorated in the church. One of the inspirations behind the plot is said to be the shooting of Mary Whiddon on her wedding day at the parish church of Chagford, Devon, in the 17th century. He himself attended Blundell's School in Tiverton which serves as the setting for the opening chapters. The Great Winter described in chapters 41–45 was a real event. He expended great effort, in all of his novels, on his characters' dialogues and dialects, striving to recount realistically not only the ways, but also the tones and accents, in which thoughts and utterances were formed by the various sorts of people who lived on Exmoor in the 17th century.īlackmore incorporated real events and places into the novel. Development of the novel īy his own account, Blackmore relied on a "phonologic" style for his characters' speech, emphasising their accents and word formation. A favourite among females, it was also popular among male readers, and was chosen by male students at Yale in 1906 as their favourite novel. George Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that the novel was "quite admirable, approaching Scott as closely as anything since the latter". It 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. The following year it was republished in an inexpensive one-volume edition and became a huge critical and financial success. 6 Other versions and cultural referencesīlackmore 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.Infoplease ( Random House Unabridged Dictionary) Reverso Online Dictionary ( Collins French-English Dictionary) Oxford Dictionaries ( Oxford American Dictionary) Oxford Dictionaries ( Oxford Dictionary of English) Search Chambers - ( Chambers 21st Century Dictionary) Pelion, and vice versa, in an attempt to reach heaven and destroy the Mythology the giants were said to have piled Mount Ossa on to Mount Mount Olympus, rising to a height of 1,978 m (6,489 ft). Mount Ossa is a mountain in Thessaly, NE Greece, south of Tilsit is a semi-hard mild cheese, named after the town in East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia) where it was first produced.Ģ3d HE|WING - HE (male) + WING (hockey position)Ģ4d TAP(A)S - TAPS (dances) containing (around) A (†)Ģ6d _OSS|A_ - hidden in (spanning) acr OSS Asia Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) that was published in 1920.ġ7d THOU|SAND - THOU ( you) + SAND (employ grit on)ġ8d ESPOUSER* - anagram (new) of PROSE USEĢ2d TILSIT* - anagram (misprinted) LIST IT In the US, G-man is an informal term for an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and fed is slang for a federal official or law-enforcement officer - in particular, an agent of the FBI.ġ2a G(A|ME W)ARDEN - GARDEN (†) containing (suppressing) * - anagram (badly) of TERMINATES 1a B(RAIN S)URGEON - BURGEON (flower) containing (fed by) RAINS (showers)ġ0a A|R|C LAMP - A (†) + R (red) CLAMP (fastener)ġ1a F(EVER)ED - FED (G-man) containing (keeps) EVER (continually)
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