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Hodge and His Masters

by Richard Jefferies

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A crowded market day in Woolbury brings farmers, traders and labourers into the narrow streets around the Jason Inn. Richard Jefferies uses such scenes to examine rural England in a collection of essays first published in the Standard. His concern extends from the people working the land to tenant farmers, landowners and the businesses of nearby towns. Falling agricultural incomes, village education and the prospects of labour organisations give these local sketches a wider social purpose.

The writing also follows the physical details of country life. A young curate struggles through a muddy lane while two women watch from behind a hedge; autumn leaves, birds and brambles surround his awkward progress. Jefferies places these small encounters beside questions of money, class and changing habits.

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Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was an English nature writer and novelist born on a Wiltshire farm at Coate. Celebrated for essays and books rooted in the countryside, among them The Story of My Heart and Bevis, he combined precise natural observation with mysticism before dying young of tuberculosis.

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