Richard Jefferies’s Toilers of the Field gathers his journalism and sketches documenting the lives of the agricultural labourers of Victorian Wiltshire and the wider English countryside. Jefferies was one of the finest observers of rural life in nineteenth-century Britain, and these pieces capture the labour, hardship, dialect, and dignity of those who worked the land during a period of agricultural crisis and social change.
A landmark in the social history of rural England, the collection also stands as a work of literary distinction — precise, compassionate, and deeply rooted in place. Download the free EPUB for an essential portrait of the Victorian countryside and its people.