Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL was an English writer of fiction and children's books.
12 Facts About Elizabeth Goudge
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Elizabeth Goudge won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse.
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Elizabeth Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Tower House in The Liberty of the cathedral city of Wells, Somerset, where her father, Henry Leighton Elizabeth Goudge, was vice-principal of the Theological College.
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Elizabeth Goudge was educated at Grassendale School, Southbourne and the art school of University College Reading, then an extension college of Christ Church.
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Elizabeth Goudge went on to teach design and handicrafts in Ely and Oxford.
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Elizabeth Goudge set several of her books in Marldon: Smoky House, The Castle on the Hill, Green Dolphin Country, The Little White Horse and Gentian Hill.
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Elizabeth Goudge's first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories, failed to sell and several years passed before she wrote her first novel, Island Magic, which was an immediate success.
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Elizabeth Goudge had regularly visited Guernsey as a child and recalled in her autobiography The Joy of the Snow spending many summers there with her maternal grandparents and other relatives.
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Elizabeth Goudge was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and later its vice-president.
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Elizabeth Goudge's books are notably Christian in outlook, covering sacrifice, conversion, discipline, healing, and growth through suffering.
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Elizabeth Goudge said there were only three of her books that she loved: The Valley of Song, The Dean's Watch and The Child from the Sea, her final novel.
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Elizabeth Goudge doubted whether The Child from the Sea was a good book.