Ridd

Set on the bleak wastes of Exmoor, the narrator John Ridd recalls the "Great Winter" in convincing historical detail, including the moment when he rescues the eponymous heroine from a blizzard.

Weatherwatch: Enjoying the most intense freezing frost of all 2011

What will dear Aunt Ridd say, if we send you away without nourishment?

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Ridd, I was at school with you, and you beat me very lamentably, when I tried to fight with you.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Alfred; and even when that good king lay in the Isle of Athelney, he had a Ridd along with him.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

A Ridd was with him in the isle of Athelney, and we hold our farm by gift from him; or at least people say so.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Thirdly, they gave me, ‘Ridd never be ridden,’ and fearing to make any further objections, I let them inscribe it in bronze upon blue.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

At any rate, a Ridd was with him throughout all his hiding-time.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Ridd, for sheep, and wrestling, and the thought of Lorna; and mother to love all three of us, and to make the best of her children.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Then they proposed, ‘Ridd readeth riddles’: but I begged them not to set down such a lie; for no Ridd ever had made, or made out, such a thing as a riddle, since Exmoor itself began.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Now I will be as straight-forward with you, as even a Ridd is supposed to be.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004