John Richard Jefferies
Male : Naturalist of
poetic perceptions. Novelist. Married Jessie Baden in 1874. Championed
the cause of the depressed agricultural labourer. Died after a long and
painful illness
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Coate, Nr Swindon, Wiltshire
Date of Birth : 1848 Date of Death : 1887 Age : 39
Other Work : Journalist
FICTION
The Scarlet Shawl (1874 Tinsley Brothers)
Restless Human Hearts (1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols
World's End (1877 Tinsley - 3 vols)
Greene Ferne Farm (1880 Smith, Elder)
Wood Magic : A Fable (1881 Cassell, Petter & Galpin) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £350
Bevis : The Story of a Boy (1882 Sampson, Low) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £400
[A novel about his childhood]
The Dewy Morn (1884 Bentley) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £450
After London or Wild England (1885 Cassell)
Amaryllis at the Fair (1887 Sampson, Low)
The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies (1896 Simpkin, Marshall)
T.T.T. (1896 Arthur Young)
Bevis : The Story of a Boy (1932 Cape) - E H Shepard
NON-FICTION
1873-1880
Reporting, Editing and Authorship : Practical Hints for Beginners in Literature
(1873 nd John Snow & Co)
Jack Brass, Emperor of England (1873 Pettit & Co - pamphlet)
A Memoir of Goddards of North Wilts (1873 nd Simmons & Botten)
Suez-cide! (1876 - pamphlet John Snow)
The Gamekpeeper at Home : Studies of Natural History & Rural Life (1878 Smith, Elder)
Wild Life in a Southern County (1879 Smith, Elder) (1879 Roberts, Boston) - Anon
The Amateur Poacher (1879 Smith, Elder)
The Gamekpeeper at Home (1880 Smith Elder) (1880 Roberts) - 1st illus ed. Charles Whymper
Hodge and His Masters (1880 Smith, Elder) - 2 vols
Offered in 1999 for £350
Round About a Great Estate (1880 Smith, Elder)
1881-1900
Nature Near London (1883 Chatto & Windus)
The Story of My Heart : My Autobiography (1883 Longmans)
Red Deer (1884 Longmans) (1892. 2nd Ed) - J Charlton & H Tunaly
The Life of the Fields (1884 Chatto & Windus) (1947 Lutterworth 10/6 - Agnes Miller Parker )
The Open Air (1885 Chatto & Windus) - Agnes Miller Parker
Field and Hedgerow : being the Last Essays (1889 Longmans, Green) - 200 Large Paper
The Toilers of the Field (1892 Longmans, Green) - 105 Large Paper
Thoughts from the Writings of Richard Jefferies (1895 Longmans, Green) - edited by H S H Waylen
Jefferies Land : A History of Swindon (1896 Simpkin Marshall & Co) - 50 Large Paper
1901-1950
The Hills and the Vale : Essays (1909 Duckworth) - intro by Edward Thomas
The Story of My Heart (1924 Duckworth) (1924 Dutton NY) - 225 signed by Ethelbert White
The Nature Diaries and Notebooks of Richard Jefferies (1941 Grey Walls Press)
The Spring of the Year (1946 Lutterworth Press) - Agnes Miller Parker
The Story of My Heart (1947 Constable) - autobiography
Chronicles of the Hedges (1948 Phoenix House)
The Nature Diaries and Notebooks of Richard Jefferies (1948 Grey Walls Press)
The Open Air (1948 Lutterworth) - Agnes Miller Parker
The Old House at Coate & Other Hitherto Unpublished Essays (1948 Lutterworth Press)
- Agnes Miller Parker
Beauty is Immortal (1948 Worthing Cavalcade)
Wild Life in a Southern County (1949 Lutterworth Press) - C F Tunnicliffe
After 1951
Field and Farm (1957 Phoneix House)
Meadow Thoughts (1977 Tern Press) - 80. Nicholas Parry
Landscape and Labour : Essays & Letters (1979 Moonraker Press £5.95) - Ursula Sieger
By the Brook (1981 Eric & Joan Stevens) - 170 signed by Arthur Neal
The Birth of a Naturalist (1985 Tern Press)
Return to Jeffereies Land (1985 Michael Russell)
READING
H S Salt : Richard Jefferies - A Study (1894 Swan Sonnenschein) - 280 large paper
Edward Thomas : Richard Jefferies (1908)
Reginald Arkell : Richard Jefferies (1933)