Richard Jefferies
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John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great
Richard Jefferies
Coate farm in 1896. The roof was originally thatched.
Jefferies in 1872
Monument to Richard Jefferies in Salisbury Cathedral
The Purple Cloud
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The Purple Cloud is an apocalyptic "last man" novel by the British writer M. P. Shiel. It was published in 1901. H. G. Wells lauded The Purple Cloud as "brilliant", and H. P. Lovecraft later praised t
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…of his reaction to After London: "absurd hopes curled around my heart as I read it." After London also influenced M.P. Shiel's post-apocalyptic novel, The Purple Cloud. After Eltham, Jefferies lived briefly in various parts of Sussex, first at Rotherfield, then in a house on Crowborough Hill. There Jefferies completed…
Title illustration by J. J. Cameron
The Purple Cloud was reprinted in the June 1949 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries