Annabel Farjeon

Background

Annabel Farjeon was born on March 19, 1919, in Bucklebury, Berkshire, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Herbert Farjeon, a critic, and Joan Farjeon, an artist.

Education

Annabel Furjeon began studying ballet at the age of eleven.

Career

Annabel Farjeon's early performances were with the Vic-Wells Ballet and, later, the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. When World War II began, Farjeon became an ambulance driver in London, and after the war worked with refugees in Italy and Egypt. She then began her writing and criticism career, first as an assistant literary editor for Time & Tide from 1946 to 1948, then as a ballet critic for the New Statesman until 1964. Her knowledge of ballet also led to fourteen years as a dance critic for the London Evening Standard during the 1960s and early 1970s. Besides becoming a respected critic, sometimes contributing to periodicals under the pseudonym Sarah Jefferson.

Farjeon was known for her books for children, including The Siege of Trapp's Mill (1972), The Poetry of Cats (1974), and The Unicorn Drum (1976). In addition, she completed a biography of her aunt titled Morning Has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon (1986). The journal that she kept while working as a dancer in the 1930s was later published in the 1980s in American Dance Chronicle and adapted as a BBC documentary titled Ballet behind the Borders (2002).

Achievements

• Annabel Farjeon was best known as the author of The Siege of Trapp's Mill and Morning Has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Her books received high praise from critics and readers.

Works

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  • The Book Of Ballet Stories

    (This book provides an excellent introduction for a forthc...)

    1981
  • Morning Has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon

    (Details about this gifted writer's private life, once lit...)

    1986
  • The Siege Of Trapp's Mill 1972
  • The Unicorn Drum 1976
  • The Lucky Ones 1984
  • Maria Lupin 1967
  • Town Cat's Diary 1987
  • Gareth Floyd 1984

Connections

Father:

Herbert Farjeon

Mother:

Joan Farjeon

aunt:

Eleanor Farjeon

References

• Contemporary Authors
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