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Elizabeth Goudge
Born
in Wells, The United KingdomApril 24, 1900
Died
April 01, 1984
Genre
Romance, Children's Books, Short Stories
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Elizabeth Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books.
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Wells, Somerset, in Tower House close by the cathedral in an area known as The Liberty, Her father, the Reverend Henry Leighton Goudge, taught in the cathedral school. Her mother was Miss Ida Collenette from the Channel Isles. Elizabeth was an only child. The family moved to Ely for a Canonry as Principal of the theological college. Later, when her father was made Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, they moved to Christ Church, Oxford.
She went to boarding school during WWI and later to Arts College, presumably at Reading College. She made a small living as teacher, and continued to live with herElizabeth Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books.
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Wells, Somerset, in Tower Hou
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Elizabeth Goudge Biography
Britishnovelist, born in Wells, Somerset; she studied art at Reading College. An only child, her father, Dr Henry Leighton Goudge, became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford; her mother was a descendant of a Guernsey Norman-French family. Goudge's first novel, Island Magic (1934), set in Guernsey, was followed by many others, including A City of Bells (1936), about an imaginary cathedral city based on Wells; and Towers in the Mist (1938), set in Elizabethan Oxford. Generally regarded as her best-known novels are Green Dolphin Country (1944), set in Guernsey and nineteenth-century New Zealand, a bestseller which was filmed in 1947; Gentian Hill (1949), a love story set in nineteenth-century Devon; and The Child from the Sea (1970), about Lucy Waters, the secret wife of Charles II. The Bird in the Tree (1940), The Herb of Grace (1948), and The Heart of the Family (1953), a trilogy of novels set in Devon, chronicles the lives of the Eliots of Dameroshay. Goudge's works are distinctive in style, incorporating lyrical descriptions of lan
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Elizabeth Goudge
Well-known author of children’s books, Elizabeth Goudge, lived in Peppard Common for 32 years.
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Lived in Peppard Common for 32 years
Born
24 April 1900
Died
1 April 1984
Biography
Elizabeth Goudge was born in Wells in Somerset, close to the cathedral. Her father was the Reverend Henry Goudge, a teacher at the cathedral school. Her mother was Miss Ida Colette who was born in the Channel Islands and met her future husband while on holiday.
She was an only child, and her father’s career meant they lived in beautiful places. Her education did not prepare her for the modern world as she was taught at home by a governess, Miss Lavington. These circumstances were ideal for an imaginative writer and she used instances and images from her childhood in her books such as City of Bells, Henrietta’s House, Linnets and Valerians, Sister of the Angels and The Lost Angel.
She attended boarding school in Hampshire for a while and then art college. Her father was offered the post of Regius Professor of Divinity in Oxford in 1923 and the
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