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| Name: |
(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...
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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