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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. From early in life he showed a great love of the countryside, but was temperamentally unsuited to follow his father as a farmer, and in 1866 he found employment as a newspaper reporter for the North Wiltshire Herald and the Swindon Advertiser. His birthplace and home is a museum open to the public. In late 1877, with Jessie and their baby son Harold, he moved to. | feedboo is After London Jefferies John Richard Published 1885 Categorie s Fiction Action Adventure Science Fiction Source http 1 About Jefferies 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. From early in life he showed a great love of the countryside but was temperamentally unsuited to follow his father as a farmer and in 1866 he found employment as a newspaper reporter for the North Wiltshire Herald and the Swindon Advertiser. His birthplace and home is a museum open to the public. In late 1877 with Jessie and their baby son Harold he moved to Surbiton close to the Surrey-London boundary to be nearer the hub of literary England. The Surbiton years were momentous. The couple s next child a daughter called Jessie after her mother but known by her second name Phyllis was born and Jefferies began to make his name at last. His new surroundings defined him both to himself and others as a country writer. Articles drawing on Jefferies Wiltshire experiences were snapped up by the Pall Mall Gazette then published in book form as The Gamekeeper at Home in 1878 to be followed by similar collections of essays like Wild Life in a Southern County 1879 and Round About a Great Estate 1880 . Also published in these years was the popular Wood Magic A Fable 1881 introducing his child-hero Bevis. Bevis itself came out in three volumes in 1882 the year in which he left Surbiton and after a summer in Exmoor settled for a while in Brighton. About this time he wrote his extraordinary autobiography The Story of My Heart 1883 . He had been planning this work for seventeen years and in his words it was absolutely and unflinchingly true . It was not an autobiography of the events of his life but an outpouring of his deepest thoughts and feelings. Articles about the Surbiton area were reprinted