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About 255 pages (76,355 words) in 19 products |
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(John) Richard Jefferies | | Variant Name: |
Richard Jefferies, Richard Jeffries, John Richard Jefferies | | Birth Date: |
November 6, 1848 | | Death Date: |
August 14, 1887 | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of (John) Richard Jefferies
6,408 words, approx. 21 pages
 The name of Richard Jefferies is one invoked most often by association, whether with predecessors such as William Cobbett or Gilbert White, with contemporaries such as Thomas Hardy or W. H. Hudson, or with successors such as Edward Thomas or Henry... summary from source:
Biography of (John) Richard Jefferies
4,390 words, approx. 15 pages
Richard Jefferies defies easy literary categorization. Labels such as essayist, journalist, novelist, rural observer, naturalist, and mystic have all been applied to this British writer who chronicled nineteenth-century rural life, including the... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Richard Jefferies Information
933 words, approx. 3 pages
 John Richard Jefferies (November 6 1848 - August 14 1887 ) was an English nature writer, essayist and journalist. He wrote fiction mainly based on farming and rural life. He was born at Coate, near Swindon, Wiltshire, the son of a farmer. His birthplace...
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 The Washington Post Jefferies to Plead Guilty in Trading Case
04/16/1987: 546 words, approx. 2 pages Boyd L. Jefferies, the former chairman of the Jefferies & Co. stock brokerage firm, plans to plead guilty today to criminal charges that he helped speculator Ivan F. Boesky conceal illegal stock trading activities. Jefferies' attorney, Peter Morrison, said yesterday that the former... summary from source:
The Independent - London OBITUARY: George Jeffery
01/13/1995: 525 words, approx. 2 pages George Jeffery, bookdealer: born London 31 March 1925; married (five children); died Dorset 31 December 1994. The Farringdon Road has long been the dreariest of all the approaches to the City of London, but for devoted hunters of antiquarian and secondhand books the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by W. J. Keith
9,759 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Keith explores some interconnections between Jefferies's romances—Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London.
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Critical Essay by Brian Taylor
6,979 words, approx. 23 pages
In this excerpt, Taylor studies four ofJefferies's essay collections, suggesting that his "numerous essays originated in his obsessive early cataloguings of the details of the natural world.'
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Critical Essay by Herbert M. Vaughan
6,050 words, approx. 20 pages
Here, Vaughan explores Jefferies's writings, contending that they provide insight not only into natural history, but also into "the human element of the countryside. '
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