Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- London
- Awards
- 🏆 Carnegie Medal🏆 Regina Medal🏆 Hans Christian Andersen Award
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Trending topics shown first"He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no …"
"Online version of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, with illustrations"
"No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning."
"Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger…"
"Every man's life , awaits the hour of blossoming that makes it immortal … love is a divinity above all accidents, and guards his own with extraordinary obstinacy."
"The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have the…"
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Timeline
1881
Born
Birth1965
Died
Death
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