Herbert Farjeon

EF 's brother Herbert Farjeon , playwright and theatre manager, died suddenly and unexpectedly; he had fallen while working in his study, hit his head, and choked on blood from a nosebleed.

With her eldest brother, Harry (later a musicologist), EF shared a game they called TAR. This could incorporate any number of stories and roles, played without regard to gender. It was not until 1910 that...

EJ's novel Love Affair had begun life as a pre-war plan for an operetta, based on an idea of her brother Bertie 's which was taken from two Manet paintings, including the famous Déjeuner sur l'herbe.

This same year, 1955, there appeared a new incarnation of The Glass Slipper, the children's play by EF and her brother Herbert . It had appeared in print as a story with illustrations by...

EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

At the time of her death, EF was working on another memoir, to be centred on her brother Herbert .

EF prints here the letters written to her by Thomas, whom she loved (though he did not return her love), and who was killed in the First World War. She provides a vivid context for...