The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The basis for Blackmore's historical understanding is Macaulay's History of England and its analysis of the Monmouth rebellion.
The preface of Blackmore's famous book asserts that the work is a romance not a historical novel, since the author neither "dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel." 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.
Name Index To R D Blackmore and "Lorna Doone" Trans.
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