Elizabeth Goudge

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born

April 24, 1900 in Wells, The United Kingdom

died

April 01, 1984

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Children's Books, Short Stories

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

Born in 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...more

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Books by Elizabeth Goudge

Average rating: 4.09 · 5,987 ratings · 775 reviews · 53 distinct works

	The Little White Horse 4.10 avg rating — 2,191 ratings — published 1946 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Green Dolphin Street 4.06 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1944 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Linnets and Valerians 4.28 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Scent of Water 4.21 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1963 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Pilgrim's Inn (Eliots of Damerosehay, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1948 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Dean's Watch (City of Bells, Book 3) 4.31 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Child from the Sea 3.88 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Bird in the Tree (Eliots of Damerosehay, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1962 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Heart of the Family (Eliots of Damerosehay, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 170 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	A City of Bells (Torminster, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 157 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by Elizabeth Goudge

Eliots of Damerosehay (3 books)
by Elizabeth Goudge

4.22 avg rating — 660 ratings

Torminster (3 books)
by Elizabeth Goudge

4.18 avg rating — 235 ratings

Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
― Elizabeth Goudge, Little White Horse

46 people liked it

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

28 people liked it

“she had long accepted the fact
that happiness is like swallows in
Spring. It may come and nest under
your eaves or it may not. You cannot
command it. When you expect to be
happy you are not, when you don't
expect to be happy there's suddenly
Easter in your soul, though it be
midwinter.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

22 people liked it

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