Richard Doddridge Blackmore was a well-known English novelist of the second half of the
nineteenth century. He got famous for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside
sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting
in his works. Alice Lorraine: a tale of the South Downs is his novel published in 1875. Set in
Sussex and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars the book recounts the divergent adventures of the
eponymous heroine and her brother in their efforts to save the noble Lorraine family from ruin.
