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The Dewy Morn

First published: 1884
Pages: 256

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In this two-volume novel Richard Jefferies places a young woman at the center of a story steeped in the open air he loved. Felise is passionate, physically vital, and wholly alive to the natural world, and her devotion to Martial Barnard drives a romance that runs against the grain of respectable convention. Around the love story Jefferies arranges his familiar concerns: the beauty of the downland, the hardship of the rural poor, and the failings of the men who own the land. Less polished than his celebrated nature essays but charged with the same feeling for earth and weather, it shows the novelist reaching toward passion and social protest at the same time. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Richard Jefferies

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.