Eleanor Farjeon
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Eleanor Farjeon (February 13, 1881- June 5, 1965) Author of stories for the young at heart of all ages, the most well known of her creations are probably the lyrics to the song Morning Has Broken, written in 1931 for an old Gaelic tune, and highly popularized by the Cat Stevens rendition of it in 1971.
Her father encouraged her writing from the age of five, and at 18 she wrote the lyrics for an operetta "Floretta" to the music created by her older brother, Harry Farjeon, who became a well respected composer.
She had a wide range of friends with great literary talent including D.H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Frost. For several years she had an unusually intense friendship with the married poet Edward Thomas, until his death in April 1917, during the World War I Battle of Arras. One of her most notable works Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard was written as a gift to him during his miliary service. She later published much of their correspondence, and gave an account of their relationship in Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (1958).
Eleanor never married, but had a thirty-year relationship with George Earle, an English teacher. After his death in 1949, she had a long relationship with the actor Denys Blakelock, who wrote of it in the book Portrait of a Farjeon (1966).
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is now in the public domain and available through the Project Gutenberg link below.
Partial Bibliography
- Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)
- The Soul of Kol Nikon (1914)
- Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home (1914)
- Gypsy and Ginger (1920)
- Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921)
- Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales (1925)
- Mighty Men: Achilles to Julius Caesar, Beowulf to Harold (1925)
- Nuts and May (1925)
- Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales (1925)
- Italian Peepshow (1926)
- Kaleidoscope (1928)
- The Tale of Tom Tiddler (1929)
- Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done in Prose (1930)
- The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1931)
- The Fair of St.James: A Fantasia (1932)
- Perkin the Pedlar (1932)
- Jim at the Corner and Other Stories (1934)
- A Nursery in the Nineties (1935) (Autobiography)
- Humming Bird: A Novel (1936)
- Ten Saints (1936)
- Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field (1937)
- The Wonders of Herodotus (1937)
- One Foot in Fairyland: Sixteen Tales (1938)
- The New Book of Days (1941)
- The Glass Slipper (1944) (Play)
- Ariadne and the Bull (1945)
- The Silver Curlew (1949)(Play)
- The Little Bookroom (1955)
- Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (1958)
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I'm trying to find out where Eleanor Farjeon was born and where she lived throughout her life and where she died?
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Looking for information about the poem Easter Monday a.s.a.p. please! Thank you.
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im trying to find out more about eleanor farjeons sonnet 'Peace'
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I'm trying to find a poem entitled "Then There Were Three," (1965) by Eleanor Farjeon. I am having much difficulting in locating this poem. If you can help in anyway it would be greatly appreciated.
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Please can you help me. Years ago I learnt a poem whose first line was'All the way to Alfriston'. I learnt the other day that it was by Eleanor Farjeon. But I have failed to find it anywhere and it is really begining to bug me now! Any help will be most appreciated!
VL
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In reply to the below
'All the way to Alfriston' was republished in 'The Children's Bells: A Selection of poems by EF' (1957).
'Easter Monday' was about the great love of her life Edward Thomas, the poet who was killed at the Battle of arras in 1917. It was published in 'First and Second Love' (1959) and most recently in a collection of the letters of EF/ET ''Edwad Thomas: The Last Four Years' (1997).
EF was born in 1881 in a house just off the Strand in London, to an American mother and British father. She spent most of her life in Hampstead, NW London, and died there in 1965. There is a biog by her neice: Annabel Farjeon, 'Morning Has Broken' (1986).
Jamie Andrews
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"Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard" and its sequel, "Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field" are two remarkable books set in Eleanor Farjeon's beloved Sussex and rich in references to local traditions, folklore and geographic features. In each book the central character is the wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin. Although Apple Orchard might be any time between the 18th Century and the First World War, Daisy Field is set quite firmly in the Twentieth Century. Martin Pippin does not seem at all out of place.
The books, using Martin Pippin as narrator, are vehicles for a collection of Farjeon's stories. In each case Martin meets a group of six girls- young women in the first book, and their daughters in the second. In each book Martin tells each girl in turn a story.
In Apple Orchard they are all love stories, beautiful, moving and remarkably varied. The one that sticks in my mind in particular is Open Winkens, the imagery of which is unforgetable.
In Daisy Field the stories range from the heartrending tale of "the Long Man of Wilmington" to the hilarious "Tom Cobble and Ooney" which I think is one of the best and funniest short stories ever written for children.
The tales are bound together by a narrative and a series of interludes in which Martin discusses and banters with the girls. The characters are revealed with brevity and clarity- one feels one knows every one of them as well as one knows the girls of Louisa Allcott's books.
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"Ariadne and the Bull" is a satirical book based on the Classical story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Although set in ancient Crete, the story is full of twentieth century anachronisms like Martinis and gold-plated cigarette cases. Yet one never doubts for an instant that one is in the spectacular Royal Palace of the despotic King Minos, where the great inventor Daedalus devises Crossword Puzzles to keep his master busy while he gets on with creating a flying machine, and his aesthetic son Icarus writes poetry beginning "Hail to thee, blithe spirit..." The mighty hero, Theseus, Prince of Athens, delivers his lines in iambic pentameter like Hamlet and the Minotaur sings black spirituals and puts the case for the oppressed and downtrodden. It is a wonderfully witty book!
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I am trying to find a photo of eleanor fargeon
sandy
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Lots of photos in Annabel Farjeon's biography 'Morning Has Broken' (London: Julia MacRae Books, 1986)
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Looking for a copy of the poem poetry by eleanor farjeon.Published for a language arts poetry book titled:Imagine Poetry
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Thank you anon for your reply to my query about All the way to Alfriston.
I was beginning to think I had made the whole thing up. You tell me the book it is in. Can you now tell me where I can find it!!?? I have looked on Amazon & AbeBooks etc but to no avail.
VL
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Does anyone know where I might find a full set of "The Alliterative Twins" by EF, first published, I think, in a Collins Annual for Boys and Girls circa 1947 ish?
Thank you.
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can i have a picture of Elearnor Farjeon
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How big was Eleanor's family that she came from
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How big was Eleanor's family that she came from
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Looking for a copy of poem called 'The Wish' by Eleanor Farjeon.
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hey hey~~
everybody..........
can anyone tell me the content about the poem'IT WAS LONG AGO' by Eleanor Farjeon???????????
i am really eager to know that~~
plx reply me as soon as possible ar~~
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hey hey~~
everybody..........
can anyone tell me the content about the poem'IT WAS LONG AGO' by Eleanor Farjeon???????????
i am really eager to know that~~
plx reply me as soon as possible ar~~
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i do not like poetry
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Iam searching for a Eleanor Farjeon poem the last line is"and one blessed baby in a basket"
Please can you help me,
Thanks in anticipation.
Patricia.
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DiiS iiS A CHAFO W3BSiiT3...
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SO TAK3 iiT OFF PL3AS3!!!! ♥
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