World's End - Jefferies, Richard
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John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also…mehr

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John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not." (wikipedia.org)
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English author, essayist, and naturalist Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) is most known for his writings that championed rural life and the natural environment in England. His writing was profoundly affected by his time spent in the countryside after being born on November 6, 1848, close to Swindon, Wiltshire. As a journalist, Jefferies started his writing career by submitting pieces to several magazines. But the books and essays he wrote about nature were what made him famous. He had an excellent capacity for observation and a profound understanding of the nuances of the natural world. Jefferies not only wrote about nature, but also fiction. One of his works, "Bevis: The Story of a Boy" (1882), illustrates his conviction that a child's character development is greatly aided by nature. Vibrant descriptions, strong connection to the country, and meaningful observations are hallmarks of Richard Jefferies' writing style.