Comments on: Richard Jefferies In The City

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 22:59:30 +0000

Thank you for this GA. My relative, Frederick Greenwood, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the St James Gazette, was an early admirer of Richard Jefferies and the feeling was reciprocated. Frederick recalled that he had been among the first to publish Jefferies work and he wrote: “One or two of those beautiful books of Jefferies came out of the Pall Mall, all to an exasperatingly small amount of attention, a not inconsiderate amount in itself, but so much less than their manifest worth and charm deserved as to be painfully disappointing to Jefferies’ editor.” Jefferies in turn wrote to Frederick that he very much valued his advice, and he offered him a share in the proceeds of The Gamekeeper at home as an acknowledgement of his considerable editorial assistance with the work. Frederick Greenwood was a very influential figure and his support did much to further Jefferies’ career, setting him before a wider and more discerning audience and it was FG who had persuaded George Bentley to reconsider publishing Green Ferne Farm in 1878 after Bentley had initially rejected it.

Pauline.

By: celt

celt — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:48:11 +0000

Mr. Jefferies and I share a birthplace, 120 years apart and I attended a school that was named after him. I was too young to appreciate him then.

By: Shawdian

Shawdian — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:35:13 +0000

You read my mind!
I was hoping for some London Victoriana
and we get Richard Jeffries too.
Your photos now prove my point on a conversation I
had the other day about how crowded the streets were
in Victorian days how they were so full of life, living,
not just tourism. Jeffries brings London alive.
You can hear and almost smell life in the streets he
describes. Jeffries will be my project for today, his
photo’s are fantastic. Thank you !

By: Bob Ball

Bob Ball — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:37:38 +0000

Dear GA … you have excelled yourself. I was there over one hundred years ago. I have had similar thoughts as most of us probably have. A crowded stadium. A busy bridge. Pictures of old. All dead now.

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 07:55:42 +0000

Richard Jefferies was a lovely man and appeared to be fascinated with big London, after all the city was the centre of the universe. So different from the natural world of Richard, Coate Water and the Wiltshire Down. He was a man of nature and wrote from the heart working through his long illness. To sum up his heart was in nature his ‘six’ books tell us so, bless him for all he has given us. John