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Gwynedd · GwyneddLorna Doone biscuits The Victorian writer R.D. Blackmore, if he’s remembered at all today, is known for his three-volume novel Lorna Doone. It’s an adventure story, set on Exmoor in the seventeenth century, about the feuding and violent Doone clan and the love between the narrator, John Ridd, and the eponymous Lorna. The book sold badly on its first publication in 1869, but later enjoyed huge popularity. In the twentieth century it spawned sev…Read Article
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Aberystwyth · AberystwythThe news of Brinley's death on August 3 was not surprising — he was 96 years old and frail following a stroke — but a wave of great sadness came over him, thinking back over the years of our friendship.
The Librarian and Former President (2011) My mind went straight back to the first day I saw Brinley, in Aberystwyth on 15 May 1998. I was shortlisted for the 'respectable dreadful job', Librarian of the National Library, and remained silent on m…Read Article
