He graduated in 1847, but the book was not completed and published until 1872, three years after Lorna Doone.
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It was Blackmore's next novel published after Lorna Doone although he had begun writing it 25 years earlier.
Minute Maid | Maid Marian | maid | The Maid of Orleans | Minute Maid Park | Maid of the Mist | The Nut-Brown Maid | The Maid of the Mountains | The Maid of Orleans (play) | Maid in Manhattan | Maid | Lyons Maid | The Maid of Sker | The Maid of Orleans (opera) | The Maid Freed from the Gallows | Scullery maid | Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) | Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway | Maid Marian and her Merry Men | Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) | lady's maid | A Southern Maid | A painting of a kitchen interior from the second half of the 18th century. ''En piga öser soppa ur en kittel'' ("A maid pours soup out of a cauldron"); oil on canvas by Pehr Hilleström |
Blackmore himself thought that Springhaven was a better work than Lorna Doone, and he placed Springhaven second only to The Maid of Sker as his best novel.