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   John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Richard-JefferiesRichard Jefferies | Victorian era, Nature writing, Novelist

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   Richard Jefferies was an English naturalist, novelist, and essayist whose best work combines fictional invention with expert observation of the natural world. The son of a yeoman farmer, Jefferies in 1866 became a reporter on the North Wilts Herald. In 1872 he became famous for a 4,000-word letter.

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4. www.richardjefferiessociety.org › p › the-life-of-richardRICHARD JEFFERIES: LIFE AND WORKS

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   (John) Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) is best known for his prolific and sensitive writing on natural history, rural life and agriculture in late Victorian England. However, a closer examination of his career reveals a many-sided author who was something of an enigma.

5. www.themarginalian.org › 2023/06/08 › richardThe Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as ...

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   Jun 8, 2023 · No one has captured the ineffable transcendence of such a moment more vividly and passionately than the great British nature writer Richard Jefferies (November 6, 1848–August 14, 1887) — a man of uncommon sensitivity to beauty, who died at the age I am now, having lived a life electric with wonder.

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7. www.themarginalian.org › 2024/03/01 › richardThe Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self ...

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   Mar 1, 2024 · I know of no more beautiful or deeply felt account of such contact with eternity than the one Richard Jefferies (November 6, 1848–August 14, 1887), patron saint of modern conservation, relays in his altogether breathtaking spiritual autobiography The Story of My Heart (public library).

8. www.richardjefferies.orgHome [www.richardjefferies.org]

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   Richard Jefferies was a visionary writer who celebrated the beauty and mystery of nature. Discover his inspiring legacy at the Richard Jefferies Museum, a charming cottage where he lived and wrote. Learn more about his life, philosophy and works at the home of the Richard Jefferies Society.

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   Who was John Richard Jefferies?

   • John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.

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   What books did Richard Jefferies write?

   • "The Farmer's World: Richard Jefferies' Agricultural Journalism in the late 1870s". A collection of Jefferies's articles published in the Livestock Journal. Published by Petton Books, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9563751-6-2 "Ben Tubbs Adventures" (Norfolk: Petton Books, 2016). Jefferies's earliest work of fiction.

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   Who were James Jefferies parents?

   • James Jefferies had the farm from his father, John Jefferies, who had been a printer in London before returning to Swindon to run the family mill and bakery. Richard's mother, Elizabeth Gyde (1817–1895), always called Betsy, was the daughter of John Jefferies's binder and manager.

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   Why did Jefferies worship nature?

   • Jefferies’ nature worship cannot be explained simply by a desire to escape the difficulties and frustrations of his youth spent at Coate. The wonders of nature and the timelessness of the earth, sun and stars compelled him to seek a ‘human ideal’ as a counterpart to the ideal he saw in nature.

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10. victorianweb.org › authors › jefferiesRichard Jefferies, 1848-1887: A Brief Biography

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    Feb 4, 2020 · Richard Jefferies, nature writer and novelist, was born at Coate Farm near Swindon in 1848.