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- Birth nameElizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
- Elizabeth Goudge was born on April 24, 1900 in Wells, Somerset, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Secret of Moonacre (2008), Green Dolphin Street (1947) and Jackanory (1965). She died on April 1, 1984 in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- She was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA), society of writers who specialize in romantic fiction.
- A theologian's daughter, she penned over 40 publications, many of them children's books. Her best-known work, "Green Dolphin Street", won the Literary Guild Award in 1944, and "The Little White Horse" was awarded the Carnegie Medal two years later. It was also made into a TV series ("Moonacre" (1994)) and a movie (The Secret of Moonacre (2008)).
- A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.
- Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.
- Unbelief is easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith produces a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.
- Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.
- There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.
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