Книга: Eleanor Farjeon «Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. By the age of seven, news of her skipping talents has reached the fairies and they invite her to Mount Caburn for lessons. The High Skip, the Slow Skip, the Skip Double-Double, the Long Skip, the Strong Skip, the Skip Against Trouble Elsie Piddock learns them all, and soon there s not a mortal or fairy to touch her. Many, many years later, a greedy Lord buys Mount Caburn and threatens to build factories on its land. Can Elsie Piddock save the skipping ground for the next generation? Sparkling with charm and a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust, Elsie Piddock`s story is one to be cherished. ISBN:9781406366518 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2016)
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Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon (
Biography
The daughter of popular novelist
Eleanor, known to the family as "Nellie", was a small timid child who was often sick and had poor eyesight. She was educated at home, spending much of her time in the attic, surrounded by books. Her father encouraged her writing from the age of five. She describes her family and her childhood in the autobiographical "A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935).
Although she lived much of her life among the literary and theatrical circles of London, much of Eleanor's inspiration came from her childhood and from family holidays. A holiday in France in 1907 was to inspire her to create a story of a troubadour, later refashioned as the wandering minstrel of her most famous book, "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard". During World War I, the family moved to Sussex where the landscape, villages and local traditions were to have a profound effect upon her later writing. It was in Sussex that the Martin Pippin stories were eventually to be located.
At eighteen Eleanor, whose maternal grandfather was the American actor
Eleanor had a wide range of friends with great literary talent including
After World War I Eleanor earned a living as a poet, journalist and broadcaster.Often published under a pseudonym, Eleanor's poems appeared in "The Herald" (Tomfool), "Punch", "Time and Tide" (Chimaera), "The New Leader" (Merry Andrew), "Reynolds News" (Tomfool), and a number of other periodicals. Her topical work for "The Herald", "Reynolds News" and "New Leader" was the perhaps the most accomplished of any socialist poet of the 1920s and 30s.
Eleanor never married, but had a thirty-year friendship with George Earle, an English teacher. After his death in 1949, she had a long friendship with the actor
During the 1950s she was awarded three major literary prizes:
The
Her work is cited as an influence by famous Japanese animator
Writing
These days, Eleanor Farjeon's most widely known work is the popular children's hymn "Morning has Broken", written in 1931 for an old Gaelic tune associated with the Scottish village
One of Farjeon's poetic talents was to make history easy and memorable. In poetry that is varied, witty and picturesque, Farjeon presents the saints, the kings, the tyrants and the notable events in forms that fixed them in the minds of the young reader. Her historic poems range from King Priam, who in rhyming couplets begs his son's body from
Farjeon's plays for children, such as those to be found in "Granny Gray", were popular for school performances throughout the 1950s and 60s because they were well within the capabilities of young children to perform and of teachers to direct. Several of the plays have a very large number of small parts, facilitating performance by a class, while others have only three or four performers and appear to be designed for the children of a single family.
Eleanor Farjeon's most notable books are "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard" (1921) and its sequel, "Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field" (1937). These books, which had their origins in France when Farjeon was inspired to write about a troubador, are actually set in Sussex and include descriptions of real villages and features such as the chalk cliffs and the
In "the Apple Orchard", the wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the mill-house with six sworn virgins to guard her. Martin Pippin goes to the rescue and wins the confidence of the young women by telling them love stories. Although ostensibly a children's book, the six love stories, which have much the form of
The sequel, "Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field" concerns six little girls whom Martin entertains while they are making daisy chains. The six stories, this time written for children, include "Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep" which has been published separately and is considered the finest of all Farjeon's stories. Also unforgettable is the hilarious adventure of an outrageous liar and failed magician in "Tom Cobble and Oonie".
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Partial bibliography
* "Pan-Worship and Other Poems" (1908)
* "The Soul of Kol Nikon" (1914)
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* "Gypsy and Ginger" (1920)
* "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard" (1921)
* "Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales" (1925)
* "Mighty Men:
* "Nuts and May" (1925)
* "Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales" (1925)
* "Italian Peepshow" (1926)
* "Kaleidoscope" (1928)
* "The Tale of Tom Tiddler" (1929)
* "Tales from
* "The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket" (1931)
* "The Fair of
* "Perkin the Pedlar" (1932)
* "Jim at the Corner and Other Stories" (1934)
* "A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935) (autobiography)
* "Humming Bird: A Novel" (1936)
* "Ten Saints" (1936)
* "Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field" (1937)
* "The Wonders of
* "One Foot in Fairyland: Sixteen Tales" (1938)
* "Kings and Queens" (1940) (poetry, written with her brother Herbert Farjeon)
* "The New Book of Days" (1941)
* "Brave Old Woman" (1941)
* "The Glass Slipper" (1944) (play)
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* "The Silver
* "The Little Bookroom" (1955)
* "The Glass Slipper" (1955) (novelization)
* "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years" (1958) (non-fiction)
External links
* [http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farj.htm Eleanor Farjeon: A Story Writer]
* [http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/farj/farjlist.htm List of Stories by Farjeon]
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* [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/farjeon/lippincott/apple.html Online version of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, with illustrations]
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/farjeon.html Herbert Farjeon archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection] ,
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