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Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of
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and plays, poetry,
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. Several of her works had illustrations by
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. Some of her correspondence has also been published. She won many
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and the
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for children's literature is presented annually in her memory by the
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, a society of publishers. She was the sister of thriller writer
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (4 June 1883 – 6 June 1955) was an English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His father, brother and sister also developed successful careers in the literary world. His "Ben" novels were reissued ...
.


Biography

N.B.: The biographies listed under the "Bibliography" subhead below do not eliminate the need for specific citations within the article. Eleanor Farjeon was born on 13 February 1881. The daughter of
Benjamin Farjeon Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output. Life Farjeon was born in London to Dinah Levy and Jacob Farjeon, Orthodox Jews. ...
and Maggie (Jefferson) Farjeon, Eleanor came from a literary family; her two younger brothers,
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and
Herbert Farjeon Herbert (Bertie) Farjeon (5 March 1887 – 3 May 1945) was a major figure in the British theatre from 1910 until his death. He was a presenter of revues in London's West End, a theatre critic, lyricist, librettist, playwright, theatre manager and ...
, were writers, while the eldest,
Harry Farjeon Harry Farjeon (6 May 1878 – 29 December 1948) was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years. Early life and studies Harry Farjeon was born in Hohokus Township, ...
, was a composer. Her father was
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. Farjeon, known to the family as "Nellie", was a small, timid child, who had poor eyesight and suffered from ill-health throughout her childhood. She was educated at home, spending much of her time in the attic, surrounded by books. Her father encouraged her writing from the age of five. She describes her family and her childhood in the
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''A Nursery in the Nineties'' (1935). She and her elder brother
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were especially close. Beginning when Farjeon was five, they began a sustained imaginative game in which they became various characters from theatrical plays and literature. This game, called T.A.R. after the initials of two of the original characters, lasted into their mid-twenties. Farjeon credited this game with giving her "the flow of ease which makes writing a delight". Although she lived much of her life among the literary and theatrical circles of London, much of Farjeon's inspiration came from her childhood and from family holidays. A holiday in France in 1907 was to inspire her to create a story of a troubadour, later refashioned as the wandering minstrel of her most famous book, ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard''. Among her earliest publications is a volume of poems called ''Pan Worship'', published in 1908, and ''Nursery Rhymes of London Town'' from 1916.Eleanor Farjeon – Farjeon Family Collection
Dunedin Libraries. Retrieved 11 June 2012
During World War I, the family moved to
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where the landscape, villages and local traditions were to have a profound effect upon her later writing. It was in Sussex that the Martin Pippin stories were eventually to be located. At eighteen, Farjeon wrote the
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for an
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, ''Floretta'', to music by her brother Harry, who later became a composer and teacher of music. She also collaborated with her youngest brother,
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, Shakespearian scholar and dramatic critic. Their productions include ''Kings and Queens'' (1932), ''The Two Bouquets'' (1938), ''An Elephant in Arcady'' (1939), and ''The Glass Slipper'' (1944). Farjeon had a wide range of friends with great literary talent including
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,
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,
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and Elizabeth Myers. For several years she had a close friendship with the poet Edward Thomas and his wife. After Thomas's death in April 1917 during the Battle of Arras, she remained close to his wife, Helen. She later published much of their correspondence, and gave a definitive account of their relationship in ''Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years'' (1958). After World War I Farjeon earned a living as a poet, journalist and broadcaster. Often published under a pseudonym, Farjeon's poems appeared in '' The Herald'' (Tomfool), '' Punch'', '' Time and Tide'' (Chimaera), ''
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'' (Merry Andrew), '' Reynolds News'' (Tomfool), and a number of other periodicals. Her topical work for ''The Herald'', ''Reynolds News'' and ''New Leader'' was perhaps the most accomplished of any socialist poet of the 1920s and 30s. Farjeon never married, but had a thirty-year friendship with George Earle, an English teacher. After Earle's death in 1949, she had a long friendship with the actor Denys Blakelock, who wrote of it in the book ''Eleanor, Portrait of a Farjeon'' (1966). During the 1950s, she received three major literary awards. Both the 1955 Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the inaugural
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in 1956 cited ''The Little Bookroom''. The inaugural
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in 1959 from the U.S.-based Catholic Library Association marks her "continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature". In 1960, Farjeon donated her family book collection to the Dunedin Public Library. Her father had been a journalist in Dunedin in the 1860s before returning to England. The collection includes works by Farjeon, her father, brothers and niece. It also includes some music, photographs and correspondence, and two pictograph letters by
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, who was a family friend and illustrated many of Benjamin Farjeon's books. Farjeon died in
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, London on 5 June 1965. She is buried in the north churchyard extension of
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. The
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, a society of publishers, present the
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annually to individuals or organisations whose commitment and contribution to children's books is deemed to be outstanding. Her work is cited as an influence by the Japanese animator
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. Although she entitled her 1958 book on her friendship with Edward Thomas ''Book One of The Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon'', and outlined the plans for subsequent volumes, she never completed this prior to her death in 1965. Her niece
Annabel Farjeon Eve Annabel Farjeon (19 March 1919 – 8 February 2004) was a British ballerina and author. She was born on 19 March 1919, in Bucklebury, Berkshire, the daughter of the critic Herbert Farjeon and the artist Joan Farjeon. She began learning ball ...
(1919–2004) incorporated the unfinished writings into her biography of her aunt ''Morning has Broken'' (1986).


Writing

Farjeon's most widely published work is the hymn "
Morning has Broken "Morning Has Broken" is a Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". English po ...
", written in 1931 which in 1971 became an international hit when performed by
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, reaching number nine in the UK charts, six on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number one on the U.S. easy listening chart in 1972, and number four on the Canadian ''RPM'' magazine charts. She also wrote the Advent carol "People, Look East!", usually sung to an old French melody, and often performed by children's choirs. She wrote for the BBC's '' Have You Brought Your Music?'' The series was devised by
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during the 1930s. Farjeon's plays for children, such as those to be found in ''Granny Gray'', were popular for school performances throughout the 1950s and '60s because they were well within the capabilities of young children to perform and of teachers to direct. Several of the plays have a very large number of small parts, facilitating performance by a class, while others have only three or four performers. Farjeon's books include ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard'' (1921) and its sequel, ''Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field'' (1937). These books, which had their origins in France when Farjeon was inspired to write about a troubadour, are actually set in Sussex and include descriptions of real villages and features such as the chalk cliffs and the
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. In ''Apple Orchard'', the wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the mill-house with six sworn virgins to guard her. Martin Pippin goes to the rescue and wins the confidence of the young women by telling them love stories. Although ostensibly a children's book, the six love stories, which have much the form of
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's fairy tales such as ''
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'' and ''
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'', were written not for a child but for a young soldier, Victor Haslam, who had, like Farjeon, been a close friend of Edward Thomas. Among the stories, themes include the apparent loss of a loved one, betrayal, and the yearning of a woman for whom it appears that love will never come. The sequel, ''Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field'' concerns six little girls whom Martin entertains while they are making daisy chains. The six stories, this time written for children, include "Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep" which has been published separately and is considered the finest of all Farjeon's stories. '' The Little Bookroom'' is a collection of what she considered her best stories, published by
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in 1955 with illustrations by
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. Farjeon won the annual Carnegie Medal from the
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for that work, recognising the year's best children's book by a
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. She also received the first international
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in 1956. This biennial award from the
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, now considered the highest lifetime recognition available to creators of children's books, soon came to be called the Little Nobel Prize. Prior to 1962 it cited a single book published during the preceding two years. In discussing his introduction to poetry,
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cited Farjeon's poems for children alongside those of
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and
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as "hardy annuals from the garden of English verse."


List of selected publications

;Books * ''Pan-Worship and Other Poems'' (1908) * ''Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home'' (1914), non-fiction about
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* ''Nursery Rhymes of London Town'' (1916) * ''Gypsy and Ginger'' (1920) * ''Moonshine'' (1921), poems, as by Tomfool, * ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard'' (Collins, 1921), illustrated by
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:: US editions: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922, unillustrated
e-copy
1925 printing); J. B. Lippincott Company, 1961, illus. Richard Kennedy

mis-catalogued as 1921) * ''The Soul of Kol Nikon'' (1923) * ''The Town Child's Alphabet'' (1924), with illustrations by David Jones. * ''The Country Child's Alphabet'' (1924), with illustrations by William Michael Rothenstein. * ''Mighty Men:
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to Harold'' (1925) * * ''Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales'' (1925) * * ''Kaleidoscope'' (1928) * ''The Tale of Tom Tiddler'' (1929) * ''The Perfect Zoo'' (1929) * ''Tales from Chaucer:
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Done in Prose'' (1930) * ''The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket'' (1931) * ''The Fair of St. James: A Fantasia'' (1932) *''Perkin the Pedlar'' (1932) *''Kings and Queens'' (1932), by Eleanor and
Herbert Farjeon Herbert (Bertie) Farjeon (5 March 1887 – 3 May 1945) was a major figure in the British theatre from 1910 until his death. He was a presenter of revues in London's West End, a theatre critic, lyricist, librettist, playwright, theatre manager and ...
*''Heroes and Heroines'' (1933), with Herbert Farjeon *''Ameliaranne's Prize Packet'' (1933), illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse *''Ameliaranne's Washing Day'' (1934), illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse *''Jim at the Corner and Other Stories'' (1934) *''Humming Bird: A Novel'' (1936) *''Ten Saints'' (1936) *''Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field'' (1937), sequel to ''Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard'' *''The Wonders of
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'' (1937) *''One Foot in Fairyland: Sixteen Tales'' (1938) *''Poems for Children'' (1951) *''Miss Granby's Secret'' (1940) *''The New Book of Days'' (1941) *''Brave Old Woman'' (1941) *''
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and the Bull'' (1945) *''The Glass Peacock'' (1946) illustrated by J.R. Burgess, contribution to ''The Favourite Wonder Book,'' reprinted 1946, London, Odhams Press Ltd. *'' The Little Bookroom'' (1955), illustrated by
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*''The Children's Bells'' (Oxford, 1957), collected poems including
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"People, Look East" and "
Morning Has Broken "Morning Has Broken" is a Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". English po ...
" ;Plays and novelisations * ''The Glass Slipper'' (1944), with Herbert Farjeon, play with music by Clifton Parker (reported 1946 publications , ) * ''The Silver
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'' (1949), play with music by Clifton Parker (reported "
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, , and 1953, ) * ''The Silver Curlew'' (1953), illus. Ernest H. Shepard, * ''The Glass Slipper'' (1955), illus. Shepard – novelization of the play, ;Memoirs * ''A Nursery in the Nineties'' (1935), autobiography *


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, where she donated the family book collection
Herbert Farjeon Archive
at the
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