Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

EF 's father, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon , grew up in a poor, orthodox, Jewish household in the East End of London. At thirteen he was working as an errand-boy for a Christian newspaper, avidly...

EFcould not recall a time when she was not writing. . . . writing seemed the thing to do, perhaps because her father did it. She wrote stories at five, and at six...

MC was a member of the Albemarle Club . She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant

EF presented her father with a typed volume, professionally bound and gilt, and illustrated by herself, of her Poems, containing fifty-nine pieces.

The others in the venture were Benjamin Leopold Farjeon , Florence Marryat , G. Manville Fenn , Rosa Praed , Justin Huntly McCarthy , and Clement Scott .

EF produces unusually detailed memories of the children's shared fantasy life, a phantasmagoria of experience more real to them than the actual world. She also provides vivid individual portraits: her eldest brother Harry

The family income declined with Benjamin Farjeon 's declining popularity as a novelist. It dropped precipitously with his death, while EF 's mother's inheritance of five or six thousand pounds from her own father was...