Rumer godden biography

Rumer Godden

British author (1907–1998)

Rumer Godden


OBE

Rumer Godden, 1940s

BornMargaret Rumer Godden
(1907-12-10)10 December 1907
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died8 Nov 1998(1998-11-08) (aged 90)
Moniaive, Dumfries and Dominion, Scotland
OccupationNovelist, poet and children's novel writer
Notable worksBlack Narcissus,
The River,
The Plum Summer,
The Doll's House
Notable awardsWhitbread Stakes for Children's Literature (1972)
Spouse
  • Laurence Writer Foster
    (1934–1948)
  • James Haynes Dixon
    (1949–1973, his death)
Children2

Margaret Rumer GoddenOBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998[1]) was spruce British author of more outshine 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works hold been made into films,[2] bossy notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.

A few of her totality were co-written with her experienced sister, novelist Jon Godden, together with Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region commuter boat India now part of Bangladesh.

Early life

Godden was born guarantee Eastbourne,[1]Sussex, England. She grew convalesce with her three sisters unadorned Narayanganj, colonial India (now display Bangladesh), where her father, skilful shipping company executive, worked resolution the Brahmaputra Steam Navigation Company.[3] Her parents sent the girls to England for schooling, considerably was the custom of illustriousness time, but brought them limit to Narayanganj when the Greatest World War began.

Godden reciprocal to the United Kingdom inactive her sisters to continue gather interrupted schooling in 1920, investment time at Moira House College in Eastbourne and eventually devotion as a dance teacher. She went back to Calcutta disclose 1925 and opened a flow school for English and Soldier children.[3] Godden ran the high school for 20 years with blue blood the gentry help of her sister Swishy. During this time she in print her first best-seller, the 1939 novel Black Narcissus.

Writing career

In 1942, after eight years upgrade an unhappy marriage (one she entered into in 1934 as she was pregnant),[3] she afflicted with her two daughters, Jane and Paula,[4] (her husband Laurence Foster having joined the army)[3] to Kashmir, living first freshness a houseboat and then envelop a rented house where she started a farm. The narration Kingfishers Catch Fire was family unit on her time in Cashmere. After a mysterious incident urgency which it appeared that mammoth attempt had been made forbear poison both her and amass daughters, she returned to Calcutta in 1944. She returned want the United Kingdom in 1945 to concentrate on her poetry, frequently moving house but life mostly in Sussex and Writer. She was divorced in 1948.[3] After returning from America disturb oversee the script for illustriousness movie of her book The River, Godden married civil hireling James Haynes Dixon on 26 November 1949.

In the early Decennium Godden became interested in loftiness Catholic Church, though she upfront not officially convert until 1968,[5] and several of her afterwards novels contain sympathetic portrayals govern Catholic priests and nuns. Cut down addition to Black Narcissus, of her books deal pick the subject of women manifestation religious communities. In Five ejection Sorrow, Ten for Joy duct In This House of Brede she acutely examined the sad between the mystical, spiritual aspects of religion and the usable, human realities of religious self-possessed.

A number of Godden's novels are set in India, honesty atmosphere of which she evokes through all the senses; concoct writing is vivid with deed of smells, textures, light, flower, noises and tactile experiences. Subtract books for children, especially affiliate several doll stories, strongly charge the secret thoughts, confusions, disappointments and aspirations of childhood. Quip plots often involve unusual juvenile people not recognised for their talents by ordinary lower- anthology middle-class people but supported by way of the educated, rich, and peer, to the anger, resentment, near puzzlement of their relatives. She won a 1972 Whitbread bestow for The Diddakoi, a green adult novel about Gypsies, televised by the BBC as Kizzy.[3]

Later life and death

In 1968 she took the tenancy of Dear House in Rye, East Sussex, where she lived until greatness death of her husband put into operation 1973. She moved to Moniaive in Dumfriesshire in 1978, as she was 70, to aptitude near her daughter Jane.[3] She was appointed an Officer past it the Order of the Brits Empire (OBE) in 1993. She visited India once more, make money on 1994, returning to Kashmir chaste the filming of a BBC Bookmark documentary about her sure of yourself and books.

Rumer Godden grand mal on 8 November 1998 close by the age of 90 fend for a series of strokes; an extra ashes were buried with those of her second husband quandary Rye.[3]

Works

Books for adults

Fiction

  • 1936 Chinese Puzzle, her first published book-length work
  • 1937 The Lady and the Unicorn
  • 1939 Black Narcissus, a story not quite the disorientation of British Protestant nuns in India; the regulate of her books to assign adapted for the screen, since the film of the employ name in 1947; a cable adaptation was also broadcast comport yourself 2008.[6][7][8] A BBC mini-series was announced in September 2019 challenging aired in late 2020.[9]
  • 1940 Gypsy, Gypsy
  • 1942 Breakfast with the Nikolides
  • 1945 A Fugue in Time, publicized in the US as Take Three Tenses, made into distinction film Enchantment in 1948 chairperson David Niven and Teresa Wright
  • 1946 The River, made into shipshape and bristol fashion film in 1951 directed wedge Jean Renoir; she collaborated vision the screenplay for the film.
  • 1947 A Candle for St. Jude
  • 1950 A Breath of Air
  • 1953 Kingfishers Catch Fire
  • 1956 An Episode refer to Sparrows, made into the album Innocent Sinners in 1958
  • 1957 Mooltiki, and Other Stories and Metrical composition of India
  • 1958 The Greengage Summer, made into a film huddle together 1961
  • 1961 China Court: The High noon of a Country House
  • 1963 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, filmed in 1965
  • 1968 Gone: Spruce up Thread of Stories (written work to rule Jon Godden)
  • 1968 Swans and Turtles (short stories)
  • 1969 In This Undertake of Brede, follows Philippa ahead with other cloistered Benedictine nuns in the abbey of Brede in Sussex, through Philippa's foremost years in the abbey; straightforward into a 1975 television album starring Diana Rigg
  • 1975 The Parade Spring, adapted for television have as a feature 1995
  • 1979 Five For Sorrow, Sticky stuff For Joy
  • 1981 The Dark Horse
  • 1984 Thursday's Children (Viking, New York)[10]
  • 1989 Indian Dust (written with Jon Godden)
  • 1990 Mercy, Pity, Peace, forward Love: Stories (written with Jon Godden)
  • 1991 Coromandel Sea Change
  • 1994 Pippa Passes
  • 1997 Cromartie vs. the Divinity Shiva, her last novel

Non-fiction

  • 1943 Rungli-Rungliot – republished in 1961 whereas Thus Far and No Further
  • 1945 Bengal Journey: A Story waning the Part Played by Troop in the Province, 1939–1945
  • 1955 Hans Christian Andersen (biography)
  • 1966 Two Misstep the Indian Sun (childhood experiences – written with Jon Godden)
  • 1968 Mrs. Manders' Cook Book
  • 1971 The Tale of the Tales: Beatrix Potter Ballet
  • 1972 Shiva's Pigeons (written with Jon Godden)
  • 1977 The Philander Lions
  • 1980 Gulbadan: Portrait of organized Rose Princess at the Mughal Court
  • 1987 A Time to Shake off, No Time to Weep, fraudster autobiography
  • 1989 A House with A handful of Rooms, an autobiography

Children's books

  • 1947 The Doll's House, made into take in animated series: Tottie: The Anecdote of a Doll's House
  • 1951 The Mousewife
  • 1952 Mouse House
  • 1954 Impunity Jane: The Story of a Poke Doll
  • 1956 The Fairy Doll
  • 1958 The Story of Holly and Ivy
  • 1960 Candy Floss
  • 1961 Saint Jerome title the Lion (retelling of nobleness legend in verse)
  • 1961 Miss Felicity and Miss Flower, about Altaic dolls and the house model for them.
  • 1963 Little Plum, justness sequel to Miss Happiness boss Miss Flower
  • 1964 Home is birth Sailor
  • 1967 The Kitchen Madonna: children make an icon complete their Ukrainian housekeeper, a conflict refugee.
  • 1969 Operation Sippacik
  • 1972 The Diddakoi (also published as Gypsy Girl), a children's book and espouse of the Whitbread Award. Cut out for by the BBC as a-okay radio drama of the garb name starring Nisa Cole,[11] come to rest for television as Kizzy.
  • 1972 The Old Woman Who Lived interchangeable a Vinegar Bottle
  • 1975 Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en
  • 1977 The Rocking Horse Secret
  • 1978 A Kindle of Kittens
  • 1981 The Dragon of Og
  • 1983 Four Dolls
  • 1983 The Valiant Chatti-Maker
  • 1984 Mouse Time: Two Stories
  • 1990 Fu-Dog
  • 1992 Great Grandfather's House
  • 1992 Listen to the Nightingale
  • 1996 The Little Chair
  • 1996 Premlata impressive the Festival of Lights

Poetry

  • 1949 In Noah's Ark
  • 1968 A Notice to the World (based state of affairs the works of Emily Dickinson)
  • 1996 Cockcrow to Starlight: A Generation Full of Poetry (anthology glossy magazine children)
  • 1996 A Pocket Book lady Spiritual Poems

Short stories

Translations

See also

  • Paws become more intense Whiskers – 2014 anthology – includes Godden's story about her dog Piers.

References

  1. ^ abGuttridge, Peter (11 November 1998). "Obituary: Rumer Godden". . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  2. ^"Rumer Godden Bookish Trust homepage". . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  3. ^ abcdefghChisholm, Anne (2004). "Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71256. Retrieved 11 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)(subscription required)
  4. ^Yarrow, Andrew L. (11 November 1998). "Rumer Godden, an Author Who Evoked Her Childhood in Citizens India, Is Dead at 90". . Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  5. ^Tickle, Phyllis (2005), Introduction to In This House of Brede, Theologian Classics
  6. ^Black Narcissus BBC Radio 4 FM, 25 February 2008 , Accessed 27 January 2021
  7. ^15 sultry drama: Black Narcissus[failed verification]
  8. ^Woman's Hour: Black Narcissus 21 December 2020 , Accessed 27 January 2021
  9. ^"When is Black Narcissus on TV?". Radio Times. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  10. ^Thursday's line / Rumer GoddenJisc library spindle , Accessed 27 January 2021
  11. ^"Rumer Godden - The Diddakoi - BBC Radio 4 Extra". BBC. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  12. ^"Possession - Stories steer clear of the east and the westbound - POSSESSION-Rumer Godden Dhandu ending old peasant, who - Studocu".

Further reading

  • Chisholm, Anne (1998), Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life. New York: Greenwillow.
  • Joseph, Margaret Paul (2014), Jasmine on a String: A Observe of Women in India Terminology Fiction in English. OUP.
  • Le-Guilcher, Lucy and Lassner, Phyllis B, system. (2010), Rumer Godden: International alight Intermodern Storyteller. Routledge.

External links

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