Elizabeth Goudge

1900–1984

14 standalone books

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in the cathedral city of Wells, where her father was vice-principal of the Theological College. The family moved to Ely and then to Oxford during her childhood. She attended Grassendale School and studied art at University College Reading. She taught design and handicrafts in Ely and Oxford. Her first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919), was unsuccessful, but her first novel, Island Magic (1934), was an immediate success. She became a best-selling author in the UK and the USA from the 1930s through the 1970s. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1946 for The Little White Horse, which later inspired a British television mini-series and a film. Green Dolphin Country (1944) was adapted as a film in 1948. After her mother's death in 1951, she moved to a cottage on Peppard Common, where she lived for the last 30 years of her life. She was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and later served as vice president. She died on 1 April 1984.

Born

1900