John Jeffery Farnol was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, UK, son of Kate Jeffery and Henry John Farnol, a factory-employed brass-founder. The marriage had three more children, two boys and a girl. He was brought up in London and Kent. He attended the Westminster Art School, after he had lost his job in a Birmingham metal-working firm. In 1900, he married Blanche Wilhelmina Victoria Hawley (1883-1955), the 16 years old daughter of the noted New York scenic artist H. Hughson Hawley; they moved to the United States, where he found work as a scene painter. The marriage had a daughter, Gillian. He returned to England around 1910, and settled in Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1938, he divorced and remarried with Phyllis Mary Clarke on 20 May, and adopted her daugther, Charmian Jane.
On 9 August 1952, he died after a long battle with cancer at 73 in Eastbourne.
He published his first romance novel My Lady Caprice in 1907. The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced around 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children's books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued in a version edited by mediatic romance novelist Barbara Cartland.
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Fiction, Fiction in English, Social life and customs, Boxing, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, general, Historical fiction, History, Manners and customs, World War, 1914-1918, Adaptations, Adventure stories, Arthurian romances, Blacksmiths, Classic Literature, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, romance, historical, regency, Fiction, short stories (single author), Highwaymen, London (england), fiction, Love storiesTime
1800-1837, Late Georgian Period, 20th century, Elizabeth, 1558-1603, The Middle Ages, southern EnglandID Numbers
- OLID: OL1475076A
- ISNI: 0000000109488741
- VIAF: 2829540
- Wikidata: Q6175761
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q6175761
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- John Jeffery Farnol
- Jeffrey Farnol
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