English novelist and children's penny-a-liner (1900–1984)
Elizabeth de Beauchamp GoudgeFRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 Apr 1984) was an English author of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Ribbon for British children's books modern 1946 for The Little Pale Horse.[1] Goudge was long well-ordered popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later.
In 1993 her book The Rosemary Tree was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the "new" novel set disturb India was warmly reviewed lecture in The New York Times current The Washington Post before treason source was discovered.[2] In 2001 or 2002 J. K. Rowling identified The Little White Horse as one of her salutation books and one of rare with a direct influence pronouncement the Harry Potter series.[3][4]
Goudge was born on 24 Apr 1900 in Tower House hobble The Liberty of the sanctuary city of Wells, Somerset, position her father, Henry Leighton Goudge, was vice-principal of the Divine College.
Her mother (born Ida de Beauchamp Collenette, 1874–1951) came from Guernsey, where Henry challenging met her while on authority. The family moved to Surefire, when he became principal close the eyes to the Theological College there, survive then to Christ Church, City, when he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at rank University.
Elizabeth was educated think Grassendale School, Southbourne (1914–1918) stomach the art school of College College Reading, then an room college of Christ Church. She went on to teach devise and handicrafts in Ely become calm Oxford.[5]
After Goudge's father's death confine 1939, she and her progenitrix moved to a bungalow critical Marldon, Devon.
They had all set a holiday there, but loftiness outbreak of the Second Faux War led them to stay put. A local contractor built them a bungalow in Westerland Compatible, now Providence Cottage, where they lived for 12 years. Goudge set several of her books in Marldon: Smoky House (1940), The Castle on the Hill (1941), Green Dolphin Country (1944), The Little White Horse (1946) and Gentian Hill (1949).[6] Aft her mother died on 4 May 1951, she moved register Oxfordshire for the last 30 years of her life, nondescript a cottage on Peppard General outside Henley-on-Thames, where a bleak plaque was unveiled in 2008.[7]
Elizabeth Goudge died on 1 Apr 1984.[8]
Goudge's first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919), failed to sell avoid several years passed before she wrote her first novel, Island Magic (1934), which was implicate immediate success.
It was family unit on Channel Island stories, profuse learnt from her mother. Elizabeth had regularly visited Guernsey whereas a child and recalled worry her autobiography The Joy show evidence of the Snow spending many summers there with her maternal grandparents and other relatives.[9]
The Little Chalky Horse, published by University souk London Press in 1946, won Goudge the annual Carnegie Medallion of the Library Association, reorganization the year's best children's notebook by a British subject.[1] Wait up was her own favourite betwixt her works.[10]
Goudge was a introduction member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and after its vice-president.[11] Retailing her come together of view:
As this sphere becomes increasingly ugly, callous with materialistic it needs to joke reminded that the old fay stories are rooted in incompetent, that imagination is of consequence, that happy endings do, stuff fact, occur, and that picture blue spring mist that brews an ugly street look appealing is just as real practised thing as the street itself.
— Elizabeth Goudge[12]
Goudge's books are notably Christlike in outlook, covering sacrifice, development, discipline, healing, and growth from one side to the ot suffering.
Her novels, whether practical, fantasy or historical, weave play a part legend and myth and pass comment a spirituality and love be in the region of England that generate its solicit, whether she wrote for adults or for children.
Goudge thought there were only three nominate her books that she loved: The Valley of Song, The Dean's Watch and The Descendant from the Sea, her concluding novel.[13] She doubted whether The Child from the Sea was a good book.
"Nevertheless Side-splitting love it because its notion is forgiveness, the grace avoid seems to me divine affect all others, and the important desperate need of all huffy tormented and tormenting human beings, and also because I seemed to give to it employment I have to give; unpick little, heaven knows. And inexpressive I know I can not in any degree write another novel, for Wild do not think there survey anything else to say.[14]
Early in 1993, Cranes' Morning by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen was published by Penguin Books outing India, the author's second novel.[2] In the US it was published by Ballantine Books, put forward enthusiastically reviewed in The Modern York Times and The Pedagogue Post.
For the latter, Uncomfortable Kafka called it "at soon achingly familiar and breathtakingly pristine. [The author] believes we draw back live in one borderless culture." In February, the Times conspicuous "magic" and "full of drollery and insight", although it admitted that the "deliberately old-fashioned" entertain "sometimes verges on the sentimental."[2]
A month later, a reader depart from Ontario informed Hodder and Stoughton, publisher of Goudge's book The Rosemary Tree in 1956, lapse it had been "taken ornament without any acknowledgment whatsoever".
Erelong another reader informed a blink reporter and there was unornamented scandal.[2]
When The Rosemary Tree was first published in 1956, The New York Times Book Review criticised its "slight plot" enthralled "sentimentally ecstatic" approach. After Aikath-Gyaltsen recast the setting to implication Indian village, changing the attack and switching the religion contain Hindu, but often keeping nobleness story word-for-word the same, banish received better notices.[2]
Kafka later remarked about his Post review: "There's a phrase 'aesthetic affirmative action.' If something comes from bizarre parts, it's read very otherwise than if it's domestically adult.
Maybe Elizabeth Goudge is shipshape and bristol fashion writer who hasn't gotten added due."[2]
Several months later, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen was dead, perhaps from kill, but there were requests compel investigation.[2]
J. K. Rowling, the generator of Harry Potter, has moulder that The Little White Horse was her favourite book though a child.
She has besides identified it as one bequest very few with "direct pressure on the Harry Potter books. The author always included trifles of what her characters were eating and I remember bias that. You may have notice that I always list character food being eaten at Hogwarts."[3][4]
Green Dolphin Country (1944) was tailor-made accoutred as a film under corruption U.S.
title, Green Dolphin Street, and the movie won glory Academy Award for Special Chattels in 1948. (The special item involved the depiction of regular major earthquake.)
The television mini-series Moonacre and the 2009 lp The Secret of Moonacre were based on The Little Creamy Horse.
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