Jeffery
Farnol was
born in
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
in the
County of
Warwick,
England on
February
10, 1878.
When he
was ten
years old,
the Farnol
family
moved to
London; it
was during
this
period
that
Jeffery
Farnol
spent a
few years
at Lee,
where he
was able
to explore
Kent, the
county
which
supplied
the
background
for many
of his
novels.
His first
novel,
"The Broad
Highway,"
is
sub-titled
"A Story
of Kent."
For a time
Jeffery
Farnol was
sent to
work in a
firm of
engineers
and
brass-founders
in
Birmingham.
While
there, a
foreman in
the works
called
young
Farnol a
liar, and
Farnol
knocked
him down.
He was
dismissed
from his
post, and
returned
to his
parents in
London.
He then
attended
the
Westminster
Art School
and
comparing
his work
with that
of a more
gifted
pupil,
decided
that an
art career
would be
unprofitable.
At the age
of twenty,
Jeffery
Farnol
married
and went
to
America.
To earn
money for
his
immediate
needs, he
found
employment
as a scene
painter at
the Astor
Theatre,
New York.
In his
spare
time, he
began
writing
"The Broad
Highway."
The
manuscript
was
submitted
to several
American
publishers,
but was
not
accepted.
It was
thought to
be "too
English".
Eventually,
it was
sent to
Farnol's
mother in
England,
and
subsequently
published
by Sampson
Low in
1910.
It was a
great
success,
and the
beginning
of a
relationship
with
Sampson
Low who
continued
to publish
all his
novels.
Then
followed
"The Money
Moon",
"The
Amateur
Gentleman",
"Chronicles
of the
Imp", and
the many
romances
that have
made
Jeffery
Farnol a
best
seller for
nearly
fifty
years.
Jeffery
Farnol was
born in
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
in the
County of
Warwick,
England on
February
10, 1878.
When he
was ten
years old,
the Farnol
family
moved to
London; it
was during
this
period
that
Jeffery
Farnol
spent a
few years
at Lee,
where he
was able
to explore
Kent, the
county
which
supplied
the
background
for many
of his
novels.
His first
novel,
"The Broad
Highway,"
is
sub-titled
"A Story
of Kent."