Portrayal of the Battle of Sedgemoor in 'Lorna Doone'
From R.D.Blackmore's classic novel of Exmoor Picture of R D Blackmore in public domain courtesy of Wikipedia UK This blog post is a companion piece to my general thoughts on Lorna Doone for the 'A Burnt Ship' blog Would that I had never been there! Often in the lonely hours, even now it haunts me;would far more, that the piteous thing had never been done in England. John Ridd, Volume III Chapter XII of 'Lorna Doone' R.D Blackmore's 'Lorna Doone' (1869) is the most well known novel to feature the Battle of Sedgemoor, well the immediate aftermath at least. In the whole of the novel's 700 pages, there is little about the Rebellion. Monmouth is referred to almost in passing Judge Jeffreys appears for a few pages as Lord Chief Justice in 1683. And not every filmed version of the novel even includes the Battle of Sedgemoor scene, though the 2000/2001 film version depicts it well. Th