Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist.

During the voyage he was moved from steerage to cabin class because he had produced some numbers of a ship newspaper, the Ocean Record.

[1] Farjeon worked as a gold miner in Victoria (Australia), started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861.

He settled in Dunedin, working as a journalist on the Otago Daily Times, edited by Julius Vogel, of which he became manager and sub-editor.

Farjeon began writing novels and plays, as a self-confessed disciple of Dickens, whose attention he managed to catch.