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Blackmore, ‘Wrestling’ in Lorna Doone (1869)

  • Blackmore R. D. Blackmore
  • Date: July 17, 1869
  • Source: Lorna Doone
  • Type: Book
  • Tags: Blackmore R. D. Blackmore

35 references to Wrestling, including: Much as I longed to know more about Lorna, and though all my heart was yearning, I could not reconcile it yet with my duty to mother and Annie, to leave them on the following day, which happened to be a Sunday. For lo, before breakfast was out of our […]

Blackmore, ‘Rarstling’ in Clara Vaughan (1864)

  • Chappell Dascombe Ellicombe Fictional R. D. Blackmore Tom Gundry
  • Date: July 17, 1864
  • Source: Clara Vaughan
  • Type: Book
  • Tags: Chappell Dascombe Ellicombe Fictional R. D. Blackmore Tom Gundry

Fictional account, but with key references made by the novelist R. D. Blackmore that drew upon real events, and real wrestlers of the period: Volume 2, Chapter 5: CHAPTER V. That same evening, as I was sitting in my lonely room, yet not quite alone,–for little Sally, who always did as I bade her, was […]

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