Female : Children's writer & Poet. Jewish. Friend of Edward Thomas (1878-1917). Had a liaison with the scholar George Earle for over 30 years although he was already married. Became a Catholic 1951

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1881 Date of Death : 1965 Age : 84

Pseudonyms : Tom Fool. Chimaera

Education : Privately educated

1899-1920
Floretta (1899 Henderson & Spalding) - music by Harry Farjeon
The Registry Office (1900 H & S) - music by HF
A Gentleman of the Road (1903 H & S) - music by HF
Pan Worship & Other Poems (1908 Elkin Mathews 2/6)
Dream Songs for the Beloved (1911 Orpheus Press)
Arthur Rackham : The Wizard at Home (1914 Century, US)
Trees : An Essay (1914 Batsford)
Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916 Duckworth) - Macdonald Gill
More Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1917 Duckworth) - Macdonald Gill
All the Way to Alfriston (1918 Morland Press) - Robin Guthrie
Sonnets and Poems (1918 Blackwell)
Singing Games for Children (1919 Dent) - J Littlejohns
A First Chapbook of Rounds (1919 Dent) - John Garside
A Second Chapbook of Rounds (1919 Dent) - John Garside
Tomfooleries (1920 Daily Herald)
Gypsy and Ginger (1920 Dent) - ss

1921-1925
Moonshine (1921 Labour Publ Co / Allen & Unwin)
Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard (1921 Collins) - C E Brock
Tunes of a Penny Piper (1922 Selwyn & Blount) - John Aveten
Songs for Music and Lyrical Poems (1922 S & B) - John Aveten
All the Year Round (1923 Collins)
The Soul of Kol Nikon (1923 Collins)
The Town Child's Alphabet (1924 Poetry Bookshop) - David Jones
Offered in 1999 for £200
Mighty Men : Achilles to Julius Caesar (nd.1924 Blackwell) - Hugh Chesterman
Mighty Men : Beowulf to Harold (1925 Blackwell) - Hugh Chesterman
Songs from 'Punch' for Children (1925 Saville)
Young Folk and Old (1925 Hugh House Press) - 220
Faithful Jenny Dove & Other Tales (1925 Collins)
Tom Cobble (1925 Blackwell) - M Dobson

1926-1930
Nuts and May : A Medley for Children (1926 Collins) - Rosalind Throneycroft
Italian Peepshow & Other Tales (1926 Stokes, US) (1934 Blackwell) - Rosalind Throneycroft
Joan's Door (1926 Collins) - Will Townsend
Singing Games from Arcady (1926 Blackwell)
Come, Christmas (1927 Collins) - Molly McArthur
The Wonderful Knight (1927 OUP) - Doris Pailthorpe
The King's Barn, or, Joan's Tale (1927 Collins)
The Mill of Dreams, or, Jennifer's Tale (1927 Collins)
Young Gerard, or, Joyce's Tale (1927 Collins)
A Bad Day for Martha (1928 Blackwell) - Eugenie Richards
Kaleidoscope (1928 Collins) (1963 OUP - Edward Ardizzone)
An Alphabet of Magic (1928 Medici Society) - Margaret Tarrant
The ABC of the BBC (1928 Collins) - T C Derrick
Snowfall (1928 Favil Press)
A Collection of Poems (1929 Collins)
The Perfect Zoo (1929 Harrap) (1947 Harrap - Kathleen Burrell )
The King's Daughter Cries for the Moon (1929 Blackwell) - May Smith
The Tale of Tom Tiddler (1929 Collins) - Norman Tealby
Westwoods (1930 Blackwell) - May Smith
Tales from Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales done into Prose (1930 Medici Soc) - W Russell Flint

1931-1935
Poems for Children (1931 Lippincott, US)
The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1931 Univ of London) - E Herbert Whydale
Ladybrook (1931 Collins)
The Fair of St James : A Fantasia (1932 Faber)
Perkin the Pedlar (1932 Faber) - Clare Leighton
Kings and Queens (1932 Gollancz) (1932 Dutton) - Rosalind Thorneycroft. With Herbert Farjeon
Katy Kruse at the Seaside, or, The Deserted Islanders (1932 Harrap)
Ameliaranne's Prize Packet (1933 Harrap) - S B Pearse
Pannychis (1933 Hugh House Press) - Clare Leighton
Heroes and Heroines (1933 Gollancz) (nd Dutton NY) - Rosalind Thorneycroft. With Herbert Farjeon
Over the Garden Wall (1933 Faber) - Gwendolen Raverat
Ameliaranne's Washing Day (1934 Harrap) - S B Pearse
Jim at the Corner & other Stories (1934 Blackwell) - Irene Mountfort
The Clumber Pup (1934 Blackwell) - Irene Mountfort
And I Dance Mine Own Child (1935 Blackwell) - Irene Mountfort
A Nursery in the Nineties (1935 Gollancz) - memoirs

1936-1940
The Humming Bird (1936 MJ)
Jim and the Pirates (1936 Blackwell) - Roger Naish
Ten Saints (1936 OUP) (1936 OUP NY) - Helen Sewell
Lector Readings (1936 Nelson) - Ruth Westcott
The Wonders of Herodotus (1937 Nelson) - Edmund Nelson
Paladins in Spain (1937 Nelson) - Katharine Tozer
Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field (1937 Joseph) - Isobel & John Morton-Sale
Sing for Your Supper (1938 Joseph) - Isobel & John Morton-Sale
Songs of Kings and Queens (1938 Arnold) - with Herbert Farjeon
One Foot in Fairyland : Sixteen Tales (1938 Joseph) - Robert Lawson
Grannie Gray : Children's Plays and Games with Music and Without (1939 Dent) - Joan Jefferson Farjeon
A Sussex Alphabet (1939 Pear Tree Press) - Sheila M Thompson
The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1965 Oxford) - E Ardizzone

1941-1950
Brave Old Woman (1941 Michael Joseph)
Magic Casements (1941 Allen & Unwin) - essays
Cherrystones (1942 Michael Joseph) - I & J Morton-Sale
The Fair Venetian (1943 MJ)
Golden Coney (1943 MJ)
A Prayer for Little Things (1945 Mifflin, US) - Elizabeth Orton Jones
The Mulberry Bush (1945 Joseph) - I & J Morton-Sale
Ariadne and the Bull (1945 MJ)
The Dark World of Animals (1945 Sylvan Press, London) - wood engravings by T Stoney
The Glass Slipper (play) (1946 Wingate) - Hugh Stevenson. With H Farjeon
First and Second Love : Sonnets (1947 MJ) (1959 OUP)
The Two Bouquets (1948 MJ)
Love Affair (1949 MJ)
The Starry Floor (1949 Joseph) - I & J Morton-Sale
Mrs Malone (1950 Joseph) - David Knight

1951 Onwards
Silver Sand and Snow (1951 Michael Joseph)
The Silver Curlew : A Fairy Tale (1953 French) - play
The Silver Curlew (1953 OUP) - Ernest H Shepard
The Little Book-room (1955 OUP) - E Ardizzone
The Children's Bells : A Selection of Poems (1957 OUP) - Peggy Fortnum
Elizabeth Myers (1957 St Albert's Press, Aylesford) - tribute. 1000
Edward Thomas : The Last Four Years (1958 OUP)
Eleanor Farjeon's Book : Stories, Verses, Plays (1960 Penguin) - E Ardizzone
Italian Peepshow (1960 OUP) - E Ardizzone
Mrs Malone (1962 Henry Z Walck, NY) - E Ardizzone
(Intro) You Come Too : A Selection of Poems by Robert Frost (1964 Bodley Head)
The Green Roads (1965 BH)
The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1965 Oxford) - E Ardizzone
My Garden (1966 Hamish Hamilton) - Jane Paton
Morning Has Broken (1981 Mowbray) - Gordon Stowell
Invitation to a Mouse & Other Poems (1981 Pelham) - Antony Maitland. Ed by Annabel Farjeon
Blackbird Has Spoken : Selected Poems for Children (1999 Macmillan £9.99) - chosen by Anne Harvey

READING
Eileen H Colwell : Eleanor Farjeon (1961 Bodley Head)
(Ed) N Lewis : The Eleanor Farjeon Book - A Tribute to Her Life and Work 1881-1965
(1966 Hamish Hamilton)
Denys Blakelock : Eleanor - Portrait of a Farjeon (1966 Gollancz)
Anne Harvey : A Present for Nellie - the Story of Farjeon's Childhood (1982 Pegasus pb)
Annabel Farjeon : Morning Has broken - A Biography by her Niece (1986 Julia MacRae Books £14.95)


Eleanor Farjeon Award
Instituted 1965 by the Children's Book Circle for distinguished service
to children's books. £750 to be given to a librarian, teacher, author, illustrator,
artist, publisher, reviewer, TV producer, etc