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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
Image credit: Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita / The Greengage Summer / An Episode of Sparrows (1963) 86 kappaletta
The India Novels Volume One: Black Narcissus, Breakfast with the Nikolides, and The River (2018) 9 kappaletta
Kingfishers Catch Fire / A Winter Diary 5 kappaletta
The India Novels Volume Two: Cromartie vs. the God Shiva, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Peacock Spring, and Coromandel… (2018) 3 kappaletta
Chinese Puzzle 3 kappaletta
Great biographies: Thomas A. Edison; Hans … 2 kappaletta
Bengal Journey: A story of the part played by women in the province, 1939-1945 (with 14 pages of illustrations) (1945) 2 kappaletta
Breakfast with the Nikolides / A Red Doe 2 kappaletta
Operation Sippacik [abridged] 1 kappale
Godden, Rumer Archive 1 kappale
The River / Water Music 1 kappale
Die Nacht der Gespenster 1 kappale
Premiēre 1 kappale
Associated Works
Prayers from the Ark and The Creatures' Choir (1976) — Kääntäjä, eräät painokset — 153 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Best Sellers: Airport | Nicholas and Alexandra | The Kitchen Madonna | Vanished (1969) 19 kappaletta
My Most Inspiring Moment: Encounters with Destiny Relived by Thirty-Eight Best-Selling Authors (1965) 10 kappaletta
These Simple Things: Some Appreciations of the Small Joys in Daily Life (1965) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Dark Horse • Still Missing • This Was The North • Sharpe's Gold (1981) 5 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: In This House of Brede • The Durrells in Corfu • The Black Camels of Qashran • A… (1970) 5 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Man-Eater! / A Single Pebble / Island in the Sun / Crash Pilot / An Episode of… (1950) 3 kappaletta
RDCBLP Fireworks for Elspeth | The Education of Little Tree | Rear Window | Zoo Vet (1979) 3 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 90 - Die Hunde des Krieges. La Balsa. Der Kardinal schweigt. Das fremde Kind (1975) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Best-in-Books Volume 29: The Greengage Summer; Please Don't Eat the Daisies; Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas;… (1958) 3 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | The Edge of Sadness | On Safari | Of Good and Evil (1964) 3 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 40 - Der Künstler. In den Schuhen des Fischers. Der Kampf in der Villa Fiorita.… (1965) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
The Tower of Babel, The Crossbreed, The Wooden Horse, Swans and Turtles, Christy (1969) 2 kappaletta
Black Narcissus [2020 miniseries] — Original book — 2 kappaletta
Een madonna voor Marta; De President; De wereldreis van de Gipsy Moth; Spion met twee gezichten — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Der Turm Von Babel, Fuchsspur, Die Küchen-madonna, Aufstand Der Soldaten, Mädchenmord Mit Voranmeldung (1969) 1 kappale
Readers Digest Condensed Books 1964 1 kappale
Die Töchter der Madame Liang , Der geschenkte Gaul , Die blauen Blumen der Catstreet , Papillon (1972) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Nudo io venni al mondo David weiss Il viale della serenita’ Keith wheeler La prima pietra Noel calef La battaglia… (1965) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Godden, Margaret Rumer
- Syntymäaika
- 1907-12-10
- Kuolinaika
- 1998-11-08
- Hautapaikka
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- England
- Syntymäpaikka
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Narayanganj, India (now Bangladesh)
Calcutta, India
Moniaive, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK (näytä kaikki 7)
Kashmir, India - Koulutus
- Moira House School, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
privately educated - Ammatit
- dance teacher
novelist
children's book author - Suhteet
- Godden, Jon (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Organisaatiot
- Roman Catholic Church
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1993)
- Agentti
- Edith Haggard
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- 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.
- Erotteluhuomautus
Please don't combine this author with her sister Jon Godden.
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July Read: Rumer Godden, Virago Modern Classics (lokakuuta 2017)
December 2011: Rumer Godden, Monthly Author Reads (helmikuu 2012)
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[China Court] is the story of five generations of a family living in southwestern England. Their family home is named China Court because of the money their family made in trade with China in the 1800s. When Mrs. Quin, a family matriarch from the third generation, passes away, the family story begins to be explored. Adza and Eustace have eight children. "The brood" gives way to one son, his Irish wife and their children, one of who marries Ripsie (Mrs. Quin). Tracy, part of the fifth generation, returns for her grandmother's funeral. The writing swirls around these generations - Godden doesn't take the easy way out and write a dual (or quintuple!) timeline. Instead, stories give way to other stories up and down the timeline. There are enough cues to keep the reader pretty well-oriented. I was highly impressed by this. So much fun to read a novel with interesting characters and a masterfully managed plot and timeline.
And then, the end . . .
Terrible, really terrible. There's a strange stipulation in Mrs. Quin's will about Tracy marrying the man (Peter) who has been working a farm on China Court's land. At first it seems that Godden is going to somehow manage this into working in a somewhat acceptable manner. But then there is an out of place, violent, scene between Tracy and Peter that ends the book with a total acceptance of the violence - I guess as passion? I didn't get it. I was floored and upset.
This was so disappointing after I absolutely loved [In This House of Brede] and [The Greengage Summer]. Sad.… (lisätietoja)