6 November 2017 marks almost
170 years since the day that Richard Jefferies was born on the
family farm at Coate (now part of Swindon). The Richard Jefferies Society is
celebrating the occasion with a public meeting to be held
at Liddington Village Hall on Saturday 4
November starting at 2.30pm and the publication of the first volume of a new
biography of Richard Jefferies that covers his early years
living in the Coate area – a time that inspired his writing
and which provided his first job as a reporter on the local
paper.
