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Richard Jefferies
Rediscovered the Richard Jefferies anthology Landscape with Figures, selected by Richard Mabey. Jefferies was a Victorian essayist and journalist. The collection features One of the New Voters. It was written in 1884, when the English franchise had been further extended to agricultural workers, like the harvest reaper that the essay sketches. If you like great…
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Journalism jobs
According to the Liverpool Echo, ‘top’ graduates are facing up to low paid jobs in the media. Gosh. One of the people quoted is recent Oxford grad Pipper Rimmer. Pippa, maybe? A quick Google search reveals that Pippa Rimmer was a first-year linguist in 2002. Oh dear. Journalism is not a career choice for anyone…