Blackmore was natural at Longworth, Berkshire, of which parish his father was vicar. Such as John Ridd, the hero of Lorna Doone, he was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at Exeter College, Oxford. He practised for the short instance as the attorney however an early marriage by using a beautiful Portuguese girl, & an extended malady, forced him to survive for a few years within tough & narrow circumstances. Successfully, around 1860, he came, unexpectedly, into the considerable fortune. Settling down at Teddington, he divided his life between a delights of horticulture & the pleasures of literature; cultivating his vines, peaches, nectarines, pears, & strawberries, & writing, 1st, stunning stories, and so historical romances. His number one publication was Poems by Melanter (1853), followed by Epullia (1855), The Bugle of the Black Sea (1855), etc.; but he shortly detected that fiction, non poetry, was his admittedly vocation. Beginning using Clara Vaughan in 1864, he produced fifteen novels, everthing of to a higher degree norm, & deuce or threesome of spectacular merit. One lot a right in the opinion of the public, though non of the creator, is Lorna Doone (1869), the two which rank next thereto existence The Maid of Sker (1872) (the author's favorite) & Springhaven (1887). Others come Cradock Nowell (1866), Alice Lorraine (1875), Cripps the Carrier (1876), Mary Anerley (1880), and Christowell (1882).

Blackmore acted when a pioneer of the recently romanticism inside fiction which Robert Louis Stevenson and other brilliant writers subsequently carried in. One of a virtually all striking features of his writings is his wow eye for, & sympathy by using, Nature and severity. He can be said to keep close at hand done for Devonshire what Scott did for the Upland. He hwhen been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred."

Lorna Doone is the best known of his heroines, however around Cradock Nowell, the ticket tale of the New Forest, in Alice Lorraine, the story of the South Downs, and in The Maid of Sker, he has depicted feminine types equal around charm to Lorna.

Blackmore died at Teddingtin on January 20, 1900.