Blackmore's Novels — Plot, Narration, Setting, Genre
David Blackmore
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| Title | Location | Genre | Period | Narrator | Plot |
| Clara Vaughan | Glos. N Devon. London. Corsica | Detective | 1850s | Clara Vaughan | Young woman seeks revenge for her father's murder |
| Cradock Nowell | Hampshire & south New Forest. | Rural romance | ca 1860 | 3rd person | A man is suspected of his brother's murder |
| Lorna Doone | Exmoor. N Devon & Somerset | Rural romance (historical) | 1680s | John Ridd | A young yeoman farmer loves a girl from a family of brigands and wins the battle with her guardian |
| Maid of Sker | Porthcawl, Glamorgan. N Devon. | Rural romance adventure | 1782-1800 | Davy Llewellyn | A Welsh fisherman adopts a castaway girl, and becomes entangled with a corrupt clergyman |
| Alice Lorraine | South Downs of Sussex. Spain. | Rural romance (tragedy) | 1811-15 | 3rd person | A son's disgrace poses his sister with the threat of marrying a rogue for his money |
| Cripps the Carrier | Beckley & Oxford, Oxfordshire | Rural romance | Dec1837-May1838 | 3rd person | Suspected abduction of a squire's daughter |
| Erema | California & Virginia. Rye, Sussex. | Romance isolation | Contemporary | Erema herself | A daughter's quest to clear her father's reputation from the accusation of parricide |
| Mary Anerley | East coast and north riding of Yorkshire | Rural romance adventure | 1801ff | 3rd person | A high-born girl falls in love with an outlawed smuggler |
| Christowell | Dartmoor, Devon | Rural romance adventure | 1820ff | 3rd person | A gardener's past life returns to haunt him |
| Tommy Upmore | North London | Satire | Contemporary | Tommy Upmore | Satire on the pretensions of science, and a critique of socialism and free trade |
| Springhaven | Newhaven area, Sussex | Rural romance (historical) | 1802-06 | 3rd person | Tensions within a coastal fishing village with the threat of Napoleonic invasion |
| Kit and Kitty | Sunbury, Middlesex | Rural romance | Contemporary | Kit Orchardson | Idyllic love story involving a gardener's son |
| Perlycross | Culm Valley, Devon | Rural romance | 1830s | 3rd person | Church repair and grave robbing in a small village |
| Dariel | Leatherhead, Surrey. | Rural romance (adventure) | Contemporary | George Cranleigh | The love of an impoverished landowner for a Caucasian princess |
Last updated 25 April 2006