Eleanor farjeon biography
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Eleanor Farjeon, poet, children’s writer, and popularly remembered as author of the hymn ‘Morning Has Broken’, became one of Time and Tide’s regular staff writers in May 1922.
Eleanor farjeon biography
Most of her contributions appeared under a pseudonym, ‘Chimaera’, including ‘The Weekly Crowd’, a topical verse feature which ran for nearly ten years. Farjeon’s writing for Time and Tide is marked by her strong socialist and pacifist convictions and injected a radical poetics to the paper that sometimes ran counter to its editorial line.
Farjeon was born in 1881 into a very talented literary and artistic family.
Her mother, Margaret Jane, was second child of the celebrated American actor Joseph Jefferson; her father, Benjamin Leopold, was a successful popular novelist. Her two younger brothers Joe and Herbert also became writers, while her eldest brother, Harry, taught music at the Royal Academy.
Farjeon received no formal education, but she was given free run of her father’s library of 8,000 books which