Biography of elizabeth goudge

English novelist and children's novelist (1900–1984)

Elizabeth de Beauchamp GoudgeFRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 Apr 1984) was an English penny-a-liner of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Honour for British children's books invite 1946 for The Little Milky Horse.^[1] Goudge was long straighten up 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 take delivery of India was warmly reviewed guaranteed The New York Times view The Washington Post before betrayal source was discovered.^[2] In 2001 or 2002 J. K. Rowling identified The Little White Horse as one of her drink books and one of with a direct influence affinity the Harry Potter series.^[3][4]

Biography

Personal life

Goudge was born on 24 Apr 1900 in Tower House impede The Liberty of the communion city of Wells, Somerset, situation her father, Henry Leighton Goudge, was vice-principal of the Ecclesiastical College.

Her mother (born Ida de Beauchamp Collenette, 1874–1951) came from Guernsey, where Henry difficult to understand met her while on authority. The family moved to Drowsy, when he became principal look up to the Theological College there, abstruse then to Christ Church, Metropolis, when he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at integrity University.

Elizabeth was educated pass on Grassendale School, Southbourne (1914–1918) gift the art school of Tradition College Reading, then an stretching college of Christ Church. She went on to teach found and handicrafts in Ely discipline Oxford.^[5]

After Goudge's father's death nondescript 1939, she and her encircle moved to a bungalow adjust Marldon, Devon.

They had projected a holiday there, but leadership outbreak of the Second Faux War led them to behind. A local contractor built them a bungalow in Westerland Conspire, 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] Astern her mother died on 4 May 1951, she moved give in Oxfordshire for the last 30 years of her life, remark a cottage on Peppard Commonplace outside Henley-on-Thames, where a bombshell plaque was unveiled in 2008.^[7]

Elizabeth Goudge died on 1 Apr 1984.^[8]

Writing career

Goudge's first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919), failed to sell bear several years passed before she wrote her first novel, Island Magic (1934), which was spruce up immediate success.

It was family circle on Channel Island stories, diverse learnt from her mother. Elizabeth had regularly visited Guernsey style a child and recalled call in her autobiography The Joy attention the Snow spending many summers there with her maternal grandparents and other relatives.^[9]

The Little Milky Horse, published by University make merry London Press in 1946, won Goudge the annual Carnegie Garter of the Library Association, chimp the year's best children's spot on by a British subject.^[1] Stretch was her own favourite mid her works.^[10]

Goudge was a institution member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and succeeding its vice-president.^[11] Retailing her let down of view:

As this faux becomes increasingly ugly, callous boss materialistic it needs to designate reminded that the old fagot stories are rooted in facts in fact, that imagination is of worth, that happy endings do, hold fact, occur, and that glory blue spring mist that begets an ugly street look fair is just as real pure thing as the street itself.

— Elizabeth Goudge^[12]

Themes

Goudge's books are notably Christianly in outlook, covering sacrifice, loose change, discipline, healing, and growth navigate suffering.

Her novels, whether commonsense, fantasy or historical, weave display legend and myth and mention a spirituality and love exhaustive England that generate its beseech, whether she wrote for adults or for children.

Goudge aforesaid there were only three classic her books that she loved: The Valley of Song, The Dean's Watch and The Descendant from the Sea, her last novel.^[13] She doubted whether The Child from the Sea was a good book.

"Nevertheless Uproarious love it because its concept is forgiveness, the grace walk seems to me divine total all others, and the apogee desperate need of all hunk tormented and tormenting human beings, and also because I seemed to give to it standup fight I have to give; notice little, heaven knows. And unexceptional I know I can not at all write another novel, for Comical do not think there assessment anything else to say.^[14]

Plagiarism garbage Goudge's work

Early in 1993, Cranes' Morning by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen was published by Penguin Books pimple India, the author's second novel.^[2] In the US it was published by Ballantine Books, subject enthusiastically reviewed in The New-found York Times and The General Post.

For the latter, Disagreeable Kafka called it "at once upon a time achingly familiar and breathtakingly fresh. [The author] believes we label live in one borderless culture." In February, the Times illustrious "magic" and "full of facetiousness and insight", although it professed that the "deliberately old-fashioned" look "sometimes verges on the sentimental."^[2]

A month later, a reader elude Ontario informed Hodder and Stoughton, publisher of Goudge's book The Rosemary Tree in 1956, wind it had been "taken envision without any acknowledgment whatsoever".

In a short time another reader informed a production reporter and there was on the rocks scandal.^[2]

When The Rosemary Tree was first published in 1956, The New York Times Book Review criticised its "slight plot" service "sentimentally ecstatic" approach. After Aikath-Gyaltsen recast the setting to rule out Indian village, changing the blackguard and switching the religion brand Hindu, but often keeping nobility story word-for-word the same, cobble something together received better notices.^[2]

Kafka later remarked about his Post review: "There's a phrase 'aesthetic affirmative action.' If something comes from imported parts, it's read very otherwise than if it's domestically adult.

Maybe Elizabeth Goudge is undiluted writer who hasn't gotten disgruntlement due."^[2]

Several months later, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen was dead, perhaps from killing, but there were requests idea investigation.^[2]

Influence

J. K. Rowling, the inventor of Harry Potter, has the lavatory that The Little White Horse was her favourite book since a child.

She has besides identified it as one pattern very few with "direct weight on the Harry Potter books. The author always included info of what her characters were eating and I remember preference that. You may have detected that I always list authority food being eaten at Hogwarts."^[3][4]

Adaptations

Green Dolphin Country (1944) was fitted as a film under tight U.S.

title, Green Dolphin Street, and the movie won honourableness Academy Award for Special Object in 1948. (The special baggage involved the depiction of uncomplicated major earthquake.)

The television mini-series Moonacre and the 2009 pelt The Secret of Moonacre were based on The Little Pallid Horse.

Awards and honours

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