Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies

John Richard Jefferies (* 6. November 1848 in Coate bei Swindon; † 14. August 1887 in Worthing) war ein englischer Naturschriftsteller. Er ist erst durch seine Essays berühmt geworden, aber er hat auch Romane geschrieben, darunter zwei einflussreiche Kinderbücher, Wood Magic und Bevis, ein frühes Werk Science Fiction, After London, und eine Erzählung einer untergehenden Bauernfamilie, Amaryllis at the Fair. Er litt viele Jahren an Tuberkulose, woran er schließlich starb; die Krankheit und die dadurch entstandene Armut haben seine Spätwerke beeinflusst.

Literatur

  • W. Besant: The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1888, vierte Auflage 1905)
  • W.J. Keith: Richard Jefferies, A Critical Study. (London: University of Toronto Press, 1965)
  • Q.D. Leavis: "Lives and works of Richard Jefferies". Scrutiny 6 (1938) 435-46, aufgenommen in Collected Essays Vol. 3 (Cambridge: CUP, 1989), 254-64. ISBN 052126703X
  • S.J. Looker and C. Porteous: Richard Jefferies, Man of the Fields. (London: John Baker, 1965)
  • G. Miller and H. Matthews: Richard Jefferies, A bibliographical study. (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993). ISBN 0859679187
  • A. Rossabi: ‘(John) Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
  • E. Thomas: Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work. London: Hutchinson 1909

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