Rumer Godden (1907–1998)
Forfatter af In This House of Brede
Om forfatteren
Margaret Rumer Godden was born Dec. 10, 1907, in Sussex, England. She was nine months old when her family moved to India, where her father ran a shipping line. She returned to London at age 20 to learn how to teach dance to children, and opened a school back in India. Returning to England while she vis mere was pregnant, she wrote her first book, "Chinese Puzzle," published in 1936. Her marriage to a stockbroker, Laurence Sinclair Foster, ended in 1941, leaving her penniless. In an effort to pay off her former husband's debts, Godden moved her family into a mountain cottage where she ran a school, made herbal teas for sale, and wrote books. Another novel of India, "The River," published in 1949, was one of her most acclaimed books and was made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1951. She returned to England to stay in 1945. Rumer Godden was the author of more than 60 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, plays and non-fiction. She published her 21st novel, "Cromartie vs. the God Shiva," in 1997. Rumer Godden died a year later on November 8, 1998, in Thornhill, Scotland, at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Serier
Værker af Rumer Godden
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita / The Greengage Summer / An Episode of Sparrows (1963) 84 eksemplarer
The India Novels Volume One: Black Narcissus, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and The River (2018) 9 eksemplarer
Kingfishers Catch Fire / A Winter Diary 5 eksemplarer
Chinese Puzzle 3 eksemplarer
The India Novels Volume Two: Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Peacock Spring, and Coromandel… (2018) 3 eksemplarer
Great biographies: Thomas A. Edison; Hans 2 eksemplarer
Bengal Journey: A story of the part played by women in the province, 1939-1945 (with 14 pages of illustrations) (1945) 2 eksemplarer
Breakfast with the Nikolides / A Red Doe 1 eksemplar
The River / Water Music 1 eksemplar
Premiēre 1 eksemplar
Operation Sippacik [abridged] 1 eksemplar
Godden, Rumer Archive 1 eksemplar
Porcelænshuset 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: Airport | Nicholas and Alexandra | The Kitchen Madonna | Vanished (1969) 19 eksemplarer
These Simple Things: Some Appreciations of the Small Joys in Daily Life (1965) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: In This House of Brede • The Durrells in Corfu • The Black Camels of Qashran • A… (1970) 5 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Dark Horse • Still Missing • This Was The North • Sharpe's Gold (1981) 5 eksemplarer
RDCBLP Fireworks for Elspeth | The Education of Little Tree | Rear Window | Zoo Vet (1979) 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Man-Eater! / A Single Pebble / Island in the Sun / Crash Pilot / An Episode of… (1950) 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | The Edge of Sadness | On Safari | Of Good and Evil (1964) 3 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books Volume 29: The Greengage Summer; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas;… (1958) 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 90 - Die Hunde des Krieges. La Balsa. Der Kardinal schweigt. Das fremde Kind (1975) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 40 - Der Künstler. In den Schuhen des Fischers. Der Kampf in der Villa Fiorita.… (1965) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Tower of Babel, The Crossbreed, The Wooden Horse, Swans and Turtles, Christy (1969) 2 eksemplarer
Black Narcissus [2020 miniseries] — Original book — 2 eksemplarer
Sélection du Livre No. 76 : (1) Au nom de tous les miens - (2) Opération Sippacik - (3) Course contre la vie - (4) Le… — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Selecciones del Reader's Digest. Corazones. El Hessiano, Diddakoi, La Salamandra, (1974) 1 eksemplar
Die Töchter der Madame Liang , Der geschenkte Gaul , Die blauen Blumen der Catstreet , Papillon (1972) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Nudo io venni al mondo David weiss Il viale della serenita’ Keith wheeler La prima pietra Noel calef La battaglia… (1965) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Readers Digest Condensed Books 1964 1 eksemplar
De Diddakoi; De honden van de oorlog; De Spaanse vrouw; Neem eens een getal in gedachten 1 eksemplar
Een madonna voor Marta; De President; De wereldreis van de Gipsy Moth; Spion met twee gezichten — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Godden, Margaret Rumer
- Fødselsdato
- 1907-12-10
- Dødsdag
- 1998-11-08
- Begravelsessted
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- England
- Fødested
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Bopæl
- Narayanganj, India (now Bangladesh)
Calcutta, India
Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK (vis alle 7)
Kashmir, India - Uddannelse
- Moira House School, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
privately educated - Erhverv
- dance teacher
novelist
children's book author - Relationer
- Godden, Jon (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Organisationer
- Roman Catholic Church
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1993)
- Agent
- Edith Haggard
- Kort biografi
- Rumer Godden wrote some 60 works, including novels, children's books, biographies, and poetry, a number of them drawing on her experiences of life growing up in British India and then working there as an adult. Her portrayals of the secret thoughts and confusions of childhood are especially noteworthy.
- Oplysning om flertydighed
Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Medlemmer
Discussions
July Read: Rumer Godden i Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2017)
December 2011: Rumer Godden i Monthly Author Reads (februar 2012)
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 91
- Also by
- 58
- Medlemmer
- 13,088
- Popularitet
- #1,781
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 271
- ISBN
- 537
- Sprog
- 9
- Udvalgt
- 64
The book follows Lise, as she falls in live with a pimp and begins to work for him, serves a prison sentence, and then joins a religious order.
The book also weaves in the stories of two girls that Lise more-or-less mentors.
There were a few instances where the sexual inferences were a little too detailed for my personal taste.
I think I would have preferred for the story to be told chronologically, instead of skipping around various timelines the way it did.
Overall, though, I enjoyed the book.… (mere)