Richard Jefferies - Influence and Reputation

Influence and Reputation

Early works included three by Henry Stephens Salt:

• Richard Jefferies: A Study (1894)
• Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideas (1905)
• The Faith of Richard Jefferies (1906)

Jefferies' works inspired Henry Williamson to take up writing ; Williamson edited a collection of Jefferies' writings with a title that indicates the great regard that he held for Jefferies:

• RICHARD JEFFERIES : Selections of his Work with details of his Life and Circumstances, his Death and Immortality (1947)

Other writers who admired Jefferies included David Garnett, Edward Thomas (who wrote his biography), Leslie Paul, Ethel Mannin, John Fowles, Henry Miller and Raymond Williams.

Canadian poet John Newlove published "Inscription to Richard Jefferies on a Sarsen at Barbury" in The Tasmanian Devil & Other Poems

The Richard Jefferies Bird Sanctuary in Surbiton commemorates him.