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Elizabeth Goudge

1900 - 1984

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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. In 1993 her book The Rosemary Tree was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the "new" novel set in India was warmly reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post before its source was discovered. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Goudge is the 4,636th most popular writer (up from 5,166th in 2019), the 3,645th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,843rd in 2019) and the 394th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 4,636 out of 7,302. Before her are Birgitta Trotzig, Dmytro Pavlychko, E. Marlitt, Laurence J. Peter, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Thomas Nashe. After her are Ramón J. Sender, Guillaume Musso, Alexander Volkov, Christian Matras, Isaac Watts, and Urs Widmer.

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Among people born in 1900, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 222. Before her are Pedro Arispe, Manuel Plaza, Natalio Perinetti, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Mildred Gillars, and Marie Bell. After her are Mikhail Tikhonravov, Christian Matras, Clarence Pinkston, Itzik Feffer, Alice Neel, and César Espinoza. Among people deceased in 1984, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 172. Before her are Kurt Martti Wallenius, Roger Blin, Max Newman, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Arkhip Lyulka, and Isaak Kikoin. After her are Diana Dors, Jakub Berman, Marcel Moyse, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Alice Neel, and Rambai Barni.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 3,646 out of 8,785. Before her are Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Paul Weller (1958), Graham Sutherland (1903), and Thomas Nashe (1567). After her are Charles Winslow (1888), Frank Wild (1873), Dugald Stewart (1753), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Isaac Watts (1674), and William Hopkins (1793).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 394. Before her are Anne Bradstreet (1612), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Grace Aguilar (1816), Winston Graham (1908), Robert Bolt (1924), and Thomas Nashe (1567). After her are Isaac Watts (1674), George Crabbe (1754), Amelia Edwards (1831), Richard Pococke (1704), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), and Reynold A. Nicholson (1868).

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