Rumer Godden (1907–1998)
Autor(a) de In This House of Brede
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
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Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Image credit: Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Séries
Obras por Rumer Godden
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita / The Greengage Summer / An Episode of Sparrows (1963) 86 exemplares
The India Novels Volume One: Black Narcissus, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and The River (2018) 9 exemplares
Kingfishers Catch Fire / A Winter Diary 5 exemplares
Chinese Puzzle 3 exemplares
The India Novels Volume Two: Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Peacock Spring, and Coromandel… (2018) 3 exemplares
Great biographies: Thomas A. Edison; Hans 2 exemplares
Rare Rumer Godden CHINA COURT First US edition 1961 English Country Historical Novel [Hardcover] Rumer Godden 2 exemplares
Bengal Journey: A story of the part played by women in the province, 1939-1945 (with 14 pages of illustrations) (1945) 2 exemplares
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
Associated Works
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: Airport | Nicholas and Alexandra | The Kitchen Madonna | Vanished (1969) 19 exemplares
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 exemplares
These Simple Things: Some Appreciations of the Small Joys in Daily Life (1965) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Dark Horse • Still Missing • This Was The North • Sharpe's Gold (1981) 5 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: In This House of Brede • The Durrells in Corfu • The Black Camels of Qashran • A… (1970) 5 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Man-Eater! / A Single Pebble / Island in the Sun / Crash Pilot / An Episode of… (1950) 3 exemplares
RDCBLP Fireworks for Elspeth | The Education of Little Tree | Rear Window | Zoo Vet (1979) 3 exemplares
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 90 - Die Hunde des Krieges. La Balsa. Der Kardinal schweigt. Das fremde Kind (1975) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Best-in-Books Volume 29: The Greengage Summer; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas;… (1958) 3 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | The Edge of Sadness | On Safari | Of Good and Evil (1964) 3 exemplares
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 40 - Der Künstler. In den Schuhen des Fischers. Der Kampf in der Villa Fiorita.… (1965) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Tower of Babel, The Crossbreed, The Wooden Horse, Swans and Turtles, Christy (1969) 2 exemplares
Black Narcissus [2020 miniseries] — Original book — 2 exemplares
Een madonna voor Marta; De President; De wereldreis van de Gipsy Moth; Spion met twee gezichten — Autor — 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) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Nudo io venni al mondo David weiss Il viale della serenita’ Keith wheeler La prima pietra Noel calef La battaglia… (1965) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Godden, Margaret Rumer
- Data de nascimento
- 1907-12-10
- Data de falecimento
- 1998-11-08
- Localização do túmulo
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- England
- Local de nascimento
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Locais de residência
- Narayanganj, India (now Bangladesh)
Calcutta, India
Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK (mostrar todos 7)
Kashmir, India - Educação
- Moira House School, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
privately educated - Ocupações
- dance teacher
novelist
children's book author - Relações
- Godden, Jon (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Organizações
- Roman Catholic Church
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1993)
- Agente
- Edith Haggard
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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.
- Nota de desambiguação
Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Membros
Discussions
July Read: Rumer Godden em Virago Modern Classics (Outubro 2017)
December 2011: Rumer Godden em Monthly Author Reads (Fevereiro 2012)
Críticas
Listas
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)
Garden-fiction (1)
Comfort Reads (3)
Monastic life (3)
A Novel Cure (2)
Unmarried women (1)
All Things India (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 96
- Also by
- 59
- Membros
- 13,382
- Popularidade
- #1,740
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 275
- ISBN
- 539
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 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.… (mais)