The Richard Jefferies Society was established on 13 June 1950 and now has members in all parts of the world. It is a registered charity (no. 1042838) managed by an Executive Council of volunteers.
The Society aims to promote interest in, and respect for the life and works of Richard Jefferies (1848-1887).
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Newsletters, with information about the writer, events, publications and services are circulated to members twice a year along with an annual report. In addition they receive a copy of the Society's Journal containing hitherto unpublished writing by Jefferies, new articles, research and book reviews.
The Society has a special concern for such places as the writer's birthplace at Coate (that houses a Museum dedicated to his memory), Coate Water, Liddington Hill, and the memorial stone on Burderop Down, all in Wiltshire. Other places of pilgrimage are at Surbiton, Sydenham and Eltham near London, and at Brighton, Crowborough and at his final home at Goring by Sea, Sussex where he died at the age of 38. Richard Jefferies' grave is in Broadwater cemetery at Worthing.
‘To the honoured memory of the Prose Poet of England’s fields and woodlands’
Meetings are held in the winter months by Zoom and the Spring Lecture and Annual General Meeting take place at the Richard Jefferies Museum.
The Society awards a yearly literary prize for excellence in nature writing in association with the White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough. There is a dedicated website.
The Society holds extensive archives at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham. Download a catalogue of our archives held there.
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For further information contact the Richard Jefferies Society
by email: info@richardjefferiessociety.org
or write to: c/o The Old Mill, Mill Drive, Foulsham, Norfolk NR20 5RB.
or write to: c/o The Old Mill, Mill Drive, Foulsham, Norfolk NR20 5RB.
