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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