

The family moved to Ely for a Canonry as Principal of the theological college. Her mother was Miss Ida Collenette from the Channel Isles. She made a small living as teacher, and continued to live with her Elizabeth Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books.Įlizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Wells, Somerset, in Tower House close by the cathedral in an area known as The Liberty, Her father, the Reverend Henry Leighton Goudge, taught in the cathedral school. She went to boarding school during WWI and later to Arts College, presumably at Reading College.

Later, when her father was made Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, they moved to Christ Church, Oxford. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Wells, Somerset, in Tower House close by the cathedral in an area known as The Liberty, Her father, the Reverend Henry Leighton Goudge, taught in the cathedral school. Elizabeth Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books.
