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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)