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Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965)

Born
February 13, 1881
Died
June 5, 1965
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1881

About Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Beginning when Farjeon was five, they began a sustained imaginative game in which they became various characters from theatrical plays and literature. At eighteen, Farjeon wrote the libretto for an operetta, Floretta, to music by her brother Harry, who later became a composer and teacher of music. Farjeon's most widely published work is the hymn "Morning has Broken", written in 1931, which became an international hit with Cat Stevens' 1971 recording, which reached number nine in the UK charts, six on the U.S.

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The world when Eleanor Farjeon was born

Eleanor Farjeon was born in 1881. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlinePresident Garfield assassinated
  • Technology milestoneFirst electric power plant (Godalming, England)
  • World population~1.41B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames A. Garfield / Chester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population51.0M

1881 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Eleanor Farjeon's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18812026
Population51.0M341 million

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