She became a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and later served as vice president. 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. Green Dolphin Country (1944) was adapted as a film in 1948 under the title Green Dolphin Street. Elizabeth Goudge won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for The Little White Horse in 1946 it inspired the British television mini-series Moonacre and the film The Secret of Moonacre.
She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the USA from the 1930s through the 1970s. Her first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919) was considered unsuccessful, but her first novel, Island Magic (1934) was an immediate hit.
She went on to teach design and handicrafts in Ely and Oxford. Elizabeth attended Grassendale School and studied art at University College Reading. When she was a child, the family moved to Ely and then to Oxford. Vivid, exciting tales earthquakes, shipwreck, encounters between New Zealand settlers and the indigenous Maori people are paired with fascinating details of 19th-century life, from sailing ships and steamboats to women s fashions and the natural beauty of the British seacoast and the mountains and forests of New Zealand.
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in the cathedral city of Wells, where her father, a clergyman, was vice-principal of the Theological College. Frfattare: Elizabeth Goudge Format: Pocket/Paperback ISBN: 9781619706422 Sprk: Engelska Antal sidor: 600.
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