Richard Jefferies

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Richard Jefferies
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John Richard Jefferies (born November 6, 1848 in Coate near Swindon , † August 14, 1887 in Worthing ) was an English nature writer .

His essays made him famous, but he has also written novels, including two influential children's books, Wood Magic and Bevis , an early science fiction work, After London , and a tale of a declining farming family, Amaryllis at the Fair . He suffered from tuberculosis for many years , from which he eventually died; the disease and the resulting poverty influenced his late works.

bibliography

  • The Scarlet Shawl (1874)
  • Restless Human Hearts (1875)
  • World's End (1877)
  • The Gamekeeper at Home (1878)
  • Wild Life in a Southern County (1879)
  • The Amateur Poacher (1879)
  • Greene Ferne Farm (1880)
  • Hodge and His Masters (1880)
  • Round About a Great Estate (1880)
  • Wood Magic: A Fable (1881)
  • Bevis: the Story of a Boy (1882)
  • Nature Near London (1883)
  • The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography (1883)
  • Red Deer (1884)
  • The Life of the Fields (1884)
  • The Dewy Morn (1884)
  • After London; Or, Wild England (1885)
    • English: The forest is returning. Translated by Annette von Charpentier. Bastei Lübbe TB # 72026, 1983, ISBN 3-404-72026-1 .
  • The Open Air (1885)
  • Amaryllis at the Fair (1887)
Posthumous publications
  • Field and Hedgerow; Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies (1889)
  • The Toilers in the Field (1892)
  • The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies (1896)
  • Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and its Environs (1896)
  • The Hills and the Vale (1909)

literature

  • Walter Besant: The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies . Chatto & Windus, London 1888.
  • E. Thomas: Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work . Hutchinson & Co., London 1909.
  • QD Leavis : Lives and Works of Richard Jefferies . In: Scrutiny 6, 1938. pp. 435-46; also in: QD Leavis: Collected Essays , Volume 3: The Novels of Religious Controversy . Cambridge University Press 1989, ISBN 052126703X , pp. 254-64.
  • WJ Keith: Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study. University of Toronto Press, London 1965.
  • Samuel J. Looker: Richard Jefferies, Man of the Fields. John Baker, London 1965.
  • George Miller and Hugoe R. Matthews: Richard Jefferies: A Bibliographical Study. Scolar Press, Aldershot 1993. ISBN 0859679187 .
  • A. Rossabi: (John) Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Jefferies, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jefferies, John Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nature writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Coate at Swindon
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1887
Place of death Worthing