Rumer Godden (1907–1998)
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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:
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Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Foto taget av: Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Serier
Verk av Rumer Godden
The India Novels Volume One: Black Narcissus, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and The River (2018) 9 exemplar
Kingfishers Catch Fire / A Winter Diary 5 exemplar
Chinese Puzzle 3 exemplar
The India Novels Volume Two: Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Peacock Spring, and Coromandel… (2018) 3 exemplar
Great biographies: Thomas A. Edison; Hans … 2 exemplar
Bengal Journey: A story of the part played by women in the province, 1939-1945 (with 14 pages of illustrations) (1945) 2 exemplar
An Epoisode of Sparrows 1 exemplar
Godden, Rumer Archive 1 exemplar
Operation Sippacik [abridged] 1 exemplar
Breakfast with the Nikolides / A Red Doe 1 exemplar
Litte Plum 1 exemplar
Premiēre 1 exemplar
Collectible Rumer Godden THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FLORITA First US edition 1963 Filmed Novel 1 exemplar
Collectible Rumer Godden KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE First U.S. edition 1953 Comedy Set in India 1 exemplar
The River / Water Music 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: Airport | Nicholas and Alexandra | The Kitchen Madonna | Vanished (1969) 19 exemplar
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 exemplar
These Simple Things: Some Appreciations of the Small Joys in Daily Life (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Dark Horse • Still Missing • This Was The North • Sharpe's Gold (1981) 5 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: In This House of Brede • The Durrells in Corfu • The Black Camels of Qashran • A… (1970) 5 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Man-Eater! / A Single Pebble / Island in the Sun / Crash Pilot / An Episode of… (1950) 3 exemplar
RDCBLP Fireworks for Elspeth | The Education of Little Tree | Rear Window | Zoo Vet (1979) 3 exemplar
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 90 - Die Hunde des Krieges. La Balsa. Der Kardinal schweigt. Das fremde Kind (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Best-in-Books Volume 29: The Greengage Summer; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas;… (1958) 3 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | The Edge of Sadness | On Safari | Of Good and Evil (1964) 3 exemplar
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 40 - Der Künstler. In den Schuhen des Fischers. Der Kampf in der Villa Fiorita.… (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Black Narcissus [2020 miniseries] — Original book — 2 exemplar
Een madonna voor Marta; De President; De wereldreis van de Gipsy Moth; Spion met twee gezichten — Författare — 1 exemplar
Der Turm Von Babel, Fuchsspur, Die Küchen-madonna, Aufstand Der Soldaten, Mädchenmord Mit Voranmeldung (1969) 1 exemplar
Readers Digest Condensed Books 1964 1 exemplar
Die Töchter der Madame Liang , Der geschenkte Gaul , Die blauen Blumen der Catstreet , Papillon (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Nudo io venni al mondo David weiss Il viale della serenita’ Keith wheeler La prima pietra Noel calef La battaglia… (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Godden, Margaret Rumer
- Födelsedag
- 1907-12-10
- Avled
- 1998-11-08
- Begravningsplats
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- England
- Födelseort
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Narayanganj, India (now Bangladesh)
Calcutta, India
Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK (visa alla 7)
Kashmir, India - Utbildning
- Moira House School, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
privately educated - Yrken
- dance teacher
novelist
children's book author - Relationer
- Godden, Jon (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Organisationer
- Roman Catholic Church
- Priser och utmärkelser
- 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.
- Särskiljningsnotis
Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
July Read: Rumer Godden i Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2017)
December 2011: Rumer Godden i Monthly Author Reads (februari 2012)
Recensioner
Listor
Favourite Books (1)
Sonlight Books (1)
1964 Project (1)
1960s (1)
Summer Books (1)
Elevenses (1)
Which house? (1)
Folio Society (1)
Christmas Books (1)
Comfort Reads (3)
Monastic life (3)
A Novel Cure (2)
Unmarried women (1)
Garden-fiction (1)
All Things India (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 96
- Även av
- 59
- Medlemmar
- 13,382
- Popularitet
- #1,740
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 275
- ISBN
- 539
- Språk
- 9
- Favoritmärkt
- 64
There is an innocence in the writing, which is amazing, considering they wrote the book many years later. The two sisters create a wonderful atmosphere, and there are moments when you can almost smell the old mud of India and visualize the people surrounding them.
It is possible to visualize two young girls living in what is now Bangladesh and enjoying the Indian sun. They were not rich and wrote about their pecuniary constraints without affectation. The sisters compared life in India with life in England. When they sailed back to England, they could not (at first) accept England as home.
Most of us forget that, for many English people, India was home but not home.
A charming book, well worth reading if you want to get a glimpse of life in the Raj, through the eyes of young children.… (mer)