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Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output. Life Farjeon was born in London to Dinah Levy and Jacob Farjeon, Orthodox Jews. He was raised in Whitechapel and had no formal secular education. At 14, he entered the office of the Nonconformist, a Christian journal, to learn the printing trade. He broke away from the strict faith of his father and in 1854 emigrated to Australia. During the voyage he was moved from steerage to cabin class because he had produced some numbers of a ship newspaper, the Ocean Record.Farjeon worked as a gold miner in Victoria (Australia), started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861. He settled in Dunedin, working as a journalist on the Otago Daily Times, edited by Julius Vogel, of which he became manager and sub-editor. Farjeon began writing novels and plays, as a self-confessed disciple of Dickens, whose attention he managed to catch. In his novel Grif: A story of Australian life, for example, he modelled the Melbourne street Arab Grif on Jo in Bleak House. In 1868, he returned to Britain and lived in London in the Adelphi Theatre. Over the next 35 years, Farjeon produced nearly 60 novels. Many of his works were illustrated by his long-time friend Nicholas Chevalier. Benjamin Farjeon died in Hampstead on 23 July 1903, aged 65. Family Farjeon married Margaret Jane "Maggie" Jefferson (1853–1933), daughter of the American actor Joseph Jefferson, on 6 June 1877. He was the father of J. Jefferson Farjeon, Eleanor Farjeon, Herbert Farjeon, and Harry Farjeon. Selected novels Notes References Melville, Lewis (1912). "Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. Lewis Melville, rev. William Baker. "Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold (1838–1903)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33078. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 112. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource. Serle, Percival (1949). "Farjeon, Benjamin". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Sorrell, Paul (1 September 2010). "Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 October 2012. Additional sources listed by the Dictionary of Australian Biography: Eleanor Farjeon, A Nursery in the Nineties, which gives a charming account of Farjeon's happy married life E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature The Times, 24 July 1903; Who's Who, 1943 Grove's Dictionary of Music and MusiciansExternal links Herbert Farjeon archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol Shadows on the Snow: a Christmas story at NZetc website Grif: a story of colonial life at NZetc website Works by Benjamin Farjeon at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Benjamin Farjeon at Internet Archive Works by Benjamin Farjeon at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) B. L. Farjeon at Library of Congress, with 84 library catalogue records. Discover the B L Farjeon popular books. Find the top 100 most popular B L Farjeon books.

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    The Shield of Love

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    This is not exactly a story of Cinderella, although a modern Cinderellaof whom there are a great many more in our social life than people wot ofplays her modest part therein; and t...

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    Joshua Marvel

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    In the parish of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, there lived, amidst the hundreds of thousands of human bees who throng that overcrowded locality, a family composed of four pe...

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    A Fair Jewess

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    On a bright, snowy night in December, some years ago, Dr. Spenlove, having been employed all the afternoon and evening in paying farewell visits to his patients, walked briskly tow...

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    The Shield of Love

    B. L. Farjeon

    This is not exactly a story of Cinderella, although a modern Cinderellaof whom there are a great many more in our social life than people wot ofplays her modest part therein; and t...

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    Devlin the Barber

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    The manner in which I became intimately associated with a fearful mystery with which not only all London but all England was ringing, and the strange, inexplicable Being whom the c...

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    Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

    A British novelist, playwright, printer and journalist.  Mr. Farjeon's style is remarkable for its vivid realism. The London "Athenæum" in a long and appreciative review style...

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    The Duchess of Rosemary Lane

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