Joan Jefferson Farjeon

Joan Jefferson Farjeon (26 May 1913 – 8 August 2006) was an English scenographer and costume designer. Born into a literary family, she began illustrating in 1939 and began working as a sceneographer and costume designer in 1941, working in theatre productions from the 1940s to the 1990s.

Biography Farjeon was born in London's West End Lane on 26 May 1913 into a literary family. Her father, the dramatist and novelist Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, was the third child of Margaret Jefferson (daughter of Joseph Jefferson), and the novelist Benjamin Farjeon. Her American mother, Frances Wood, was friendly with the Jefferson family. Farjeon's birth was recorded in the poem Nursery Rhymes of London Town by her aunt Eleanor Farjeon in 1916. She moved to Billingshurst, Sussex during the First World War before returning to London after the war ended. In 1925, Farjeon won a solo dancing contest at the Lyric Theatre. A collection of poems, Joan's Play, was named after her in 1926, and inspired by her life in Sussex. Farjeon was educated at Lindores School in Bexhill-on-Sea,

After remaining homebound in her early 20s, Agatha Christie's The Hollow in 1951, the Harvard Depository of the Harvard Library holds some of Farjeon's personal papers and objects connected to her.