Elizabeth Goudge





Elizabeth Goudge

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born
in Wells, The United Kingdom
April 24, 1900

died
April 01, 1984

gender
female

genre


About this author

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


Average rating: 4.10 · 8,599 ratings · 991 reviews · 45 distinct works · Similar authors
The Little White Horse
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 3,561 ratings — published 1946 — 42 editions
Linnets and Valerians
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions
Green Dolphin Street
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 1944 — 12 editions
The Scent of Water
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions
Pilgrim's Inn (Eliots of Da...
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1948 — 17 editions
The Dean's Watch (City of B...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 1960 — 12 editions
The Child from the Sea
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions
The Bird in the Tree (Eliot...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 1940 — 14 editions
A City of Bells (Torminster...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1937 — 9 editions
The Heart of the Family (El...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1962 — 11 editions
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“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

“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

“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