Eleanor Farjeon's writing career spanned almost half a century. Although not exclusively a children's writer, her reputation and main claim to critical discussion and evaluation rest with her poetry, prose, and drama written for children. Marcus Crouch...

GERVASE FARJEON was a man of many talents who remained modestly self-effacing, never convinced he had matched the success of better- known members of his family. He was born at Bucklebury, Berkshire, in 1920, the third child and only son of the theatre...

The writings of Benjamin Farjeon, an Englishman of Jewish stock, have been praised as some of the most perfect stories in the English language. His Christmas Tales, which were modeled after Charles Dickens' Christmas stories, are a successful attempt to blend English Christian culture...