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Elizabeth Goudge


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Elizabeth Goudge was an English author of romance novels, short stories and children's books.

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in the cathedral city of Wells, she moved with her family to Ely when her father, a clergyman, was transferred there. When her father, Henry Leighton Goudge, was made Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, the family left Ely and went to Christ Church, Oxford.

Goudge's first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919), was a failure and it was several years before she authored Island Magic (1934), which is based on Channel Island stories, many of which she had learned from her mother, who was from Guernsey.

Goudge was awarded the Carnegie Medal for The Little White Horse (1946), the book which J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories, has said was her favorite as a child. The television mini-series Moonacre was based on The Little White Horse. Her Green Dolphin Country (1944) was made into a film (under its American title, Green Dolphin Street) which won the Academy Award for Special Effects in 1948.

A Diary of Prayer (1966) was one of Goudge's last works. She spent her last years in her cottage on Peppard Common, just outside Henley-on-Thames, where a blue plaque was unveiled in 2008.
 

Genres: Historical Romance, Sagas, Romance
 
Series
Torminster
   1. A City of Bells (1936)
   2. The Sister of the Angels (1939)
   3. Henrietta's House (1942)

     aka The Blue Hills

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Eliots of Damerosehay
   1. The Bird in the Tree (1940)
   2. The Herb of Grace (1948)

     aka Pilgrim's Inn

   3. The Heart of the Family (1953)
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Novels
   Island Magic (1934)
   The Middle Window (1935)
   Towers in the Mist (1938)
   Smoky House (1940)
   The Castle on the Hill (1941)
   The Well of the Star (1941)
   Green Dolphin Street (1944)
     aka Green Dolphin Country
   The Little White Horse (1946)
   Gentian Hill (1949)
   Make-Believe (1949)
   The Valley of Song (1951)
   The Rosemary Tree (1956)
   The White Witch (1958)
   The Dean's Watch (1960)
   The Scent of Water (1963)
   Linnets and Valerians (1964)
     aka The Runaways
   I Saw Three Ships (1969)
   The Child From the Sea (1970)
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Collections
   The Fairies' Baby (1919)
   A Pedlar's Pack (1937)
   Three Plays: Suomi / The Brontes of Haworth / Fanny Burney (1939)
   The Golden Skylark (1941)
   The Ikon on the Wall (1943)
   The Elizabeth Goudge Reader (1946)
   At the Sign of the Dolphin (1947)
   Songs and Verses (1947)
   The Reward of Faith (1950)
   White Wings (1952)
   The Ten Gifts (1965)
   A Christmas Book (1967)
   The Lost Angel (1971)
   Pattern of People (1978)
   Home for Christmas (2014) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   A Book of Comfort (1964)
   A Book of Peace (1967)
   A Book of Faith (1976)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Elizabeth Goudge
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Spellbound (2007)
Fantasy Stories
edited by
Diana Wynne Jones
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More Murder Most Cozy (1993)
More Mysteries in the Classic Tradition
edited by
Cynthia Manson

Awards
Carnegie Medal Best Book winner (1947) : The Little White Horse


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