Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

Standard Name: Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Eleanor Farjeon
EF 's father, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon , grew up in a poor, orthodox, Jewish household in the East End of London. At thirteen he was working as an errand-boy for a Christian newspaper, avidly...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Farjeon
EFcould not recall a time when she was not writing. . . . writing seemed the thing to do, perhaps because her father did it.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
25
She wrote stories at five, and at six...
Leisure and Society May Crommelin
MC was a member of the Albemarle Club .
Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols.
vol. 1
She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant
Textual Production Clotilde Graves
The others in the venture were Benjamin Leopold Farjeon , Florence Marryat , G. Manville Fenn , Rosa Praed , Justin Huntly McCarthy , and Clement Scott .
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF presented her father with a typed volume, professionally bound and gilt, and illustrated by herself, of her Poems, containing fifty-nine pieces.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
62-4
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eleanor Farjeon
EF produces unusually detailed memories of the children's shared fantasy life, a phantasmagoria of experience
qtd. in
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 514
more real to them than the actual world. She also provides vivid individual portraits: her eldest brother Harry
Wealth and Poverty Eleanor Farjeon
The family income declined with Benjamin Farjeon 's declining popularity as a novelist. It dropped precipitously with his death, while EF 's mother's inheritance of five or six thousand pounds from her own father was...

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Graves, Clotilde et al. Seven Xmas Eves. Hutchinson, 1894.