Contents of Richard Jefferies Society Journals
There are interesting articles and shorter Jefferies’ works to be found in back numbers of the Journals which can be purchased from the Society by mail order. Below is a list of the titles.
Number 1 – 1992
Alone in London… by Richard Jefferies
T.T.T. by Richard Jefferies
Greater Gardens by Richard Jefferies
Lawn Preserves by Richard Jefferies
Edward Thomas on the Country of Richard Jefferies by Andrew Rossabi
Letter to W H Hudson by Edward Thomas
Mouching Through Jefferies by Brian Rich
Richard Jefferies and the Plesiosaur by Phyllis Treitel
A Collector’s List of Jefferies Titles
Number 2 – 1993
Reporting; Editing & Authorship (Part) by Richard Jefferies
English Socialists by Richard Jefferies
The Future of Farming; letter to Times of 15 October 1873 by Richard Jefferies
Jefferies’ Reading by W J Keith
A Tribute to Bill Keith by Andrew Rossabi
The Other Side: Visions of America by Phyllis Treitel
Book Reviews: 1) Richard Jefferies. A Bibliographical Study. 2 ) Hodge & His Masters: a new edition
Number 3 – 1994
Reporting; Editing & Authorship (Part) by Richard Jefferies
Chapters on Churches I by Richard Jefferies
The Nude in London by Richard Jefferies
Mound Restorers by Richard Jefferies
The Bevis Country by Mark Daniel
Book Reviews: 1) The Marlborough Downs. 2) Life of Henry David Thoreau
Number 4 – 1995
Chapters on Churches II by Richard Jefferies
January Notes by Richard Jefferies
The Midnight Skate by Richard Jefferies
The Fiction of Richard Jefferies by Edward Thomas
On ‘The Scarlet Shawl’ by Andrew Rossabi
‘The Forward Life of Richard Jefferies’: A Personal Response by W J Keith
Number 5 – 1996
A Book Review – ‘Sport & Nature in Scotland’ by Richard Jefferies
Charles Jefferies by Nancie D Jefferies Cator
An Uncomfortable Antiquary:Richard Jefferies and Victorian Local History by John Chandler
History and Tradition in Richard Jefferies’ ‘Three Centuries at Home’ by J B Smith
Jefferies and Cassell’s Family Magazine by W J Keith
Book Review: Nearly out of Heart and Hope.
Cyril Wright 1909-1995
Index – Numbers 1-5
Number 6 – 1997
Chapters on Churches by Richard Jefferies
The Dragon at Ashdown by Richard Jefferies
Sun-spots by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies at Tolworth by Peter K Robins
Voyage to the Unknown Island: an exploration of Richard Jefferies’ Bevis by Jonathan Calder
Number 7 – 1998
The Gamekeeper’s Larder by Richard Jefferies (RW says not by RJ 2/12/2010)
The Coming Voter by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies ‘The Coming Voter’ by Diana Morrow
Richard Jefferies, Bevis and Children’s Literature by Peter Hunt
Number 8 – 1999
Jack Brass, Emperor of England by Richard Jefferies
Thoughts on the Labour Question by Richard Jefferies
‘Thoughts on the Labour Question’: An Alternative View by Diana Morrow
Book Review: Writers in a Landscape.
Number 9 – 2000
Richard Jefferies: A Personal Discovery by Jeremy Hooker
Richard Jefferies in Germany by Peter Eyink
Introduction to the German edition of ‘The Story of My Heart’ by Ellen Key
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Andrew Rossabi
Book Review: Wessex-Peter Tolhurst
Number 10 – 2001
Chapters on Churches III by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies and Birds by W J Keith
The Art and Craft of Richard Jefferies by John Savage
Book Review: The English Path
Index numbers 6-10
Number 11 – 2002
In Summer Fields by Richard Jefferies – not by RJ according to RW 2/12/2010
The Dewy Morn: Jefferies, Being and History by Roger Ebbatson
Richard Jefferies and Thomas Hardy: Parallel Lives? by Carolyn Clarke
Was ‘Dad’ Uzzell ever at Hodson Cottage? by Ken Watts
Book Review: At Home on the Earth
Number 12 – 2003
The Man of the Future by Richard Jefferies
A Fragment of Manuscript by Richard Jefferies
Could Richard Jefferies have been an Artist instead of a Writer? by Andrew Rossabi
Time and Eternity in Jefferies’ Thought by Simon Coleman
Number 13 – 2004
Selections from Richard Jefferies’ 1876 Notebook by John Pearson
Margaret Thomas, Sculptor of the Bust of Richard Jefferies in Salisbury Cathedral by Kedrun Laurie
Kisses of the Sun by Jo-Anne Smith
Number 14 – 2005
Selections from Richard Jefferies’ 1876 Notebook by John Pearson
Richard Jefferies’ Writing Criticised and Defended by Eric Jones
Henry Williamson’s Debt to Richard Jefferies by Richard Stewart
Book Review: Henry Williamson: A Bibliography
Number 15 – 2006
Selections from Richard Jefferies’ 1876 Notebook by John Pearson
Humanity and Natural History by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies: An Independent Mind by Hugoe Matthews
Literary Landscapes, Richard Jefferies and the Planning Inspector by Mark Daniel
Book Reviews: 1) Landscape, Writing and ‘The Condition of England’, 1878-1917, Ruskin to Modernism and 2) An Imaginary England. Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920
Index numbers 11-15
Number 16 – 2007
The Coming Woman by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies and the Nature Tradition by Brian Morris
‘Nature’ in the Works of Richard Jefferies by Chen Ying
Number 17 – 2008
The Labourer and his Hire by Richard Jefferies
The Gamekeeper away from Home by Eric Jones
The Birds in Bevis by Michael Taylor
Richard Jefferies and the Classics by Andrew Rossabi
Book Review – Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision
Number 18 – 2009
The Peripatetic Philosopher and the Boy Preacher by Richard Jefferies
Who read Richard Jefferies? The evidence of the North fund subscription list by Kedrun Laurie
The Healing Benefits of ‘Meadow Thoughts’ by George Leslie Irons
Bevis’s American snap-shooter by Mark Daniel
Poem ‘From some letters never sent’ by Neil Curry
Book Review of Moment on Earth
Book Review of Richard Jefferies: An Index
Number 19 – 2010 (RJS 60th Anniversary Edition)
The Power of the Farmers by Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies: His Mark by Hugoe Matthews
A letter from Alfred Williams to Jonathan Denwood
Small Acorns: An Appreciation of the Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies by Margaret Evans
Jefferies Discoveries by Rebecca Welshman
Book Review The West Country: A Cultural History
Number 20 – 2011
Machiavelli: a Study by Richard Jefferies
Jefferies and Astronomy by Rebecca Welshman
What Counts as Regional Writing by Eric Jones
Bibliographical Discoveries by Rebecca Welshman
His First Biographer: a Profile of Sir Walter Besant by Andrew Rossabi
An Exchange of Letters between the Bishop of Salisbury and Walter Besant
Book Review Richard Jefferies: An Anthology
Number 21 – 2011 Autumn
‘Out of the Season’by Richard Jefferies
Transcript of Christine Billing’s address on the opening of the Richard Jefferies Museum at Coate, June 24, 1960
The Jefferies Festival - 1911by Kate Tryon
‘In Memory of Jefferies: a Pretty Ceremonial in Wiltshire’, The Observer, June 11, 1911
‘Richard Jefferies and Sport: the Pursuit of an Ideal’, Rebecca Welshman
A note from Elizabeth Jefferies to her niece, Sarah Jane Gyde
Book Review - Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940
Number 22 – 2012 Spring
‘Kiss and Try: A Tale of St Valentine’by Richard Jefferies
‘The Machine in the Wheatfield: Steam-Power in the Victorian Countryside’ by Roger Ebbatson
Elizabeth Jefferies’ Letters to Sarah Jane Gyde by John Price
Two letters from Richard Jefferies to Aunt Ellen Harrild
Book Review – a new edition of Jefferies’ Wild Life in a Southern County with an introduction by Richard Mabey
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Back numbers of the Journal can be obtained at £2 each (including postage) from Jean Saunders, Pear Tree Cottage, Longcot, Oxon SN7 7SS.Please note that some numbers are now out of stock (e.g. No. 10) but all are available as free documents to download from