| Eleanor Farjeon |
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| 1881 births | |
| 1965 deaths | |
| english poets | |
| english women writers | |
| english childrens writers | |
| winners of the hans christian andersen award | |
| women poets | |
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Her father, Benjamin Farjeon , an author of popular Melodrama s, encouraged her writing from the age of five; at eighteen she wrote the Libretto for an Operetta , ''Floretta'', to music by her older brother Harry , who later became a respected Composer and teacher of music. She had a wide range of friends with great literary talent including ). In 1956 she won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her contributions to Children's Literature . 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 available through the Project Gutenberg link below. Her work is cited as an infuence by famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki . PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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