| Eleanor
Farjeon |
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 13 Feb 1881
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Date of death - 1965 |
| Place of birth
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Eleanor Farjeon has been described as a small, shy and quiet, and had to wear glasses from the age of eight. Her parents contributed much to her career as a writer and poet.
Her father, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon was a successful writer and novelist is described as being very high spirited and enthusiastic with life.
Maggie (Jefferson) Farjeon, her mother, was the daughter of a well known American actor.
"Nellie", as she was affectionately called by her parents, would later care for her dying mother through a lingering and painful illness lasting twelve years.
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Eleanor had one older brother and two younger brothers: Harry Farjeon the eldest became a composer and Joseph and Herbert Farjeon were both writers.
She was a friend of many poets including: D.H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, and his close friend Edward Thomas. She had a "unique relationship" with Thomas and his wife Helen.
Eleanor introduced Thomas to Frost as well as poetry, and when she was 84 wrote the forward to Thomas' The Road Ahead, published 40 years after his death.
Another biographical book, combining her diaries and his letters from the war: Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years [1958] has been republished. Some of Helen Thomas' letters to Robert Frost also survive, and there has been some controversy concerning them. |
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