338 THE LIFE OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



tism, 12 ; his country, 1-12 ; 

 the Downs, 13-17 ; visits print- 

 ing-house as a child, 28 ; his 

 appearance, 29 ; early surround- 

 ings, 35-36 ; early attitude 

 towards Nature, 36-38 ; at a 

 private school, 39 ; fishing, 

 39 ; home teaching, 40 ; other 

 teachers, 41 ; love of sport and 

 observation, 42 ; early reading, 

 45-46 ; journey to France, 46 ; 

 to Liverpool, 47 ; habits in 

 adolescence, 47-48 ; early 

 writings, 50 et seq. ; hand- 

 writing, 53 ; interest in anti- 

 quity, S3 ; religion, 56, 57 ; 

 seriously ill, 60 ; courtship, 65 

 et seq. ; at Brussels, 68-70 ; oc- 

 casional articles, 73-74 ; ' Me- 

 moir of Goddards,' and ' Swin- 

 don and its Antiquities,' y6-yy ; 

 ' Jack Brass,' 77 ; ' Reporting, 

 Editing, and Authorship,' 77- 

 78 ; Letters to the Times, 80- 

 83 ; ' True Tale,' 82 ; further 

 magazine articles, 83-84, 91 ; 

 ' The Scarlet Shawl,' 93-96 ; 

 ' Restless Human Hearts,' 93, 

 96, 100 ; marriage, 96 ; ' World's 

 End,' 100-103 ; ' Greene Feme 

 Farm,' 103-106 ; early country 

 writings, 107-110; his prede- 

 cessors, 107-109 ; at Sydenham, 

 III ; at Surbiton, 111-115 ; im- 

 pressions of London, 1 14-120; 

 appearance and habits, 121- 

 122; 'The Gamekeeper at 

 Home,' 124-128 ; ' WHd Life in 

 a Southern County,' 128-132 ; 

 'The Amateur Poacher,' 132- 

 1 39 ; ' Round about a Great 

 Estate,' 139-146; 'Red Deer,' 

 146-149 ; ' Nature near Lon- 

 don,' 150-155 ; 'Wood Magic,' 

 156-164; ' Bevis,' 164-169; 

 taken ill with fistula, and under- 

 goes operations, 170 ; internal 

 ulceration, 170 ; haemorrhage, 

 171, 172 ; death from chronic 

 fibroid phthisis, 172 ; effects of 

 chronic invalidism, 173; 'The 

 Story of My Heart,' 177-191, 

 194-208 ; his mystic moments, 

 181-183; * Nature and Eternity,' 

 191-194, 207 ; ' The Life of the 

 Fields,' 209-214, 217-223 ; ' The 

 Open Air,' 214-217; at Brigh- 

 ton, Eltham, and Crowborough, 



209 ; visits Paris, 209 ; ' The 

 Dewy Morn,' 224-253 ; ' After 

 London,' 254-262 ; ' Amaryllis 

 at the Fair,' 263-289 ; his 

 humour, 287-289 ; ' Field and 

 Hedgerow,* 290-312 ; last daj's, 

 313-314 ; supposed death-bed 

 recantation, 314-316; life and 

 writings reviewed, 317-328 

 ' Jefferies Land,' 54-55 

 Jefferies, Richard, 24, 25 

 Jefferies, Sarah, 29 

 Jeffries, John and Sarah, 24 

 Jeffries, William and Hannah, 24 

 Jesse, Edward, ' Favourite 

 Haunts and Rural Studies,' 108 ; 

 ' The Month of May : A Rural 

 Walk,' 108 

 ' John Smith's Shanty,' 83 

 ' July Grass, The,' 305 

 ' Just Before Winter,' 299 



Keats, John, 195, 237, 303 

 Kingsley's ' Prose Idylls,' 109 

 Knox, ' Ornithological Rambles 



in Sussex,' 108 

 ' Koenigsmark the Robber,' 46 



' Labourer's Daily Life, The,' 83 

 Lamb, Charles, 325 

 ' Legend of a Gateway,' 211 

 Letters of Jefferies, 32, 39, 40, 48, 

 50, 55, 60-61, 63, 68-70, 70-72, 

 123-124, 147, 170-172, 177, 179, 

 204, 254 

 Liddingdon Clump, 4, 5, 20 

 ' Life of the Fields, The,' 59, 65-66 

 (quoted), 146, 179-180 (quoted), 

 209-215, 217-223, 254, 290, 324 

 Linnaeus, 210, 297 

 ' Locality and Nature,' 290 

 London, 39, 56, 61, iii, 114-121, 

 195, 209, 212, 213, 256, 275, 

 286-287, 290, 317. 321, 328 

 London and Faringdon road, the, 2 

 Longman's Magazine, 153, 191- 



192, 192 et seq., 293, 295 ' 

 Lubbock's ' Ants, Bees, and 



Wasps,' 210 

 Luckett, Fanny, 25 

 Lucretius, 156, 206 

 Lyell, 53, 210 



Maeterlinck, Maurice, 98, 202-203. 



205-206, 211 

 Marlborough, 5, 6, 8, 23. 75, 132 

 ' Marlborough Forest,' 47, 107, 109. 



See also Savernake Forest, 5 



