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 [1] is
celebrating the occasion with a public meeting [2] 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 [3] 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.
