Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984)
Forfatter af The Little White Horse
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Image credit: Uncredited Photo Bought from an EBay seller several years ago. The photo is signed by the author on the back.
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Three Cities of Bells: Oxford - Wells - Ely (A City of Bells + Towers in the Mist + The Dean's Watch) (1965) 32 eksemplarer
The Eliots of Damerosehay (The Bird in the Tree / The Herb of Grace / The Heart of the Family) (1957) 25 eksemplarer
Guideposts Condensed Books: The Dean's Watch/A Mighty Tempest/When Is it Right to Die/Keys to a Successful Life (1993) 3 eksemplarer
Great Grandfatehr's House 1 eksemplar
Trolldomsy̜a 1 eksemplar
Det gamle uret 1 eksemplar
David the Shepherd Boy 1 eksemplar
A Capela de São Miguel 1 eksemplar
[Works] 1 eksemplar
Tajemnica Rajskiego wzgórza 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Goudge, Elizabeth de Beauchamp
- Andre navne
- Goudge, Elizabeth
- Fødselsdato
- 1900-04-24
- Dødsdag
- 1984-04-01
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Wells, Somerset, England, UK
- Dødssted
- England, UK
- Bopæl
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Devon, England, UK
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- University of Reading
Grassendale School - Erhverv
- children's book author
novelist
short story writer
teacher - Relationer
- Goudge, Henry Leighton (father)
- Organisationer
- Romantic Novelists' Association (vice-president)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Carnegie Medal (1946)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1945) - Kort biografi
- Elizabeth Goudge was born in the cathedral city of Wells. Elizabeth attended Grassendale School and studied art at University College Reading. She went on to teach design and handicrafts in Ely and Oxford. She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the USA from the 1930s through the 1970s. After her mother's death in 1951, Elizabeth Goudge moved to a cottage on Peppard Common, just outside Henley-on-Thames, where she lived for the last 30 years of her life.
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The plot twist was predictable but sweet in places, and I did appreciate the themes of forgiveness and the mercy of God. Unfortunately, the author has no problem mixing in all kinds of pagan traditions about Christmas, Christianity, walking out the Bible, etc. and treats it all rather flippantly and on the same level. Poetic portions that are meant to be supernatural end up sounding pagan and humanistic.
This extremely imaginative author often makes one wonder to what audience she is writing. The child/teen characters are, in the author's own words, extraordinarily mature. Ugh, yes, and not at all believable. The John and Rosalind storyline was distracting and the "big revelation" was extremely anticlimactic. This was not one of my favorites, for sure.
I did learn quite a bit, though. Mummers = play actors who put on a Christmas pageant show. Bullroarer = an obnoxious but common primitive noise maker. Shipmen are usually portrayed with a scarf tied around their heads because they used it to help stifle the sound of the guns. I'm also quite curious about the planting chant and plan to research that a bit.
Favorite quote: "It's not the mark of a good patriot to hate the enemy...it's the mark of a patriot to love his country."… (mere)