R. D. Blackmore's Literary Relations — His Sources, Influence, Confluence, and Literary Reputation (original) (raw)

• Struck on the Head by the Bard; or how John Ridd came upon Shakespeare's Works
• R. D. Blackmore and Sir Walter Scott
• Lorna Doone's home and Happy Valley from Johnson's Rasselas
• Sophocles (Alice Lorraine a modern Antigone)
• R. D. Blackmore and Charles Kingsley
• Mrs. Braddon and Wilkie Collins (the sensation novel)
• John and Pip meet their beloveds — Lorna Doone and Great Expectations
• W. M. Thackeray (against his approach to the historical novel)
• Contemporary reception
  • Review in The Athenaeum (1869)
  • Review in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine (1871)
  • Review in The Saturday Review (1871)

Last updated 7 May 2006

Last modified 8 June 2007