In an 1869 R.D. Blackmore adventure novel, Lorna is kidnapped by this family of outlaws
[DOC] [TLE] "The White Peacock and "The School of Lorna Doone"" by Harrison ... [PAR] R. D. Blackmore's lengthy novel of 1869, subtitled "A Romance of Exmoor," had 
also attained enormous popularity as a novel of adventure and ... and its often 
wearisome, repetitive and conventional appeals to family ties and sentiment.