English novelist, born in London, England, of Jewish parentage, on the 12th of May 1833. He spent some years as a journalist in New Zealand and Australia, and in 1869 returned to London, where he commenced his career as a writer of novels, dealing mostly with low life, from which he has been characterized as a follower of Dickens. His first story, Grif, dealing with Australian life, appeared in 1870; and among his other better-known books are Blades o’ Grass (1874); Bread and Cheese and Kisses (1874); The Duchess of Rosemary Lane (1876); Solomon Isaacs (1877); Great Porter Square: A Mystery (1884); Molka Christmas Angels (1886); Three Times Tried (1886); Toilers of Babylon (1888); Ties (1891); and For the Defense (1892); The Last Tenant (1893); Something Occurred (1893); A Fair Jewess (1894); and The Betrayal of John Fordham (1896). In 1877 Mr. Farjeon married a daughter of Joseph Jefferson, the American actor.
