Rumer Godden
(1907-1998), Novelist, autobiographer and children's writer(Margaret) Rumer Godden
Sitter in 5 portraits
Novelist, poet and children's author. Born in Sussex, Godden's upbringing in India heavily influenced her writing. She was prolific and many of her novels have been adapted for film and television, most notably Black Narcissus (1939), a psychological drama about a convent in the Himalayas, and The Greengage Summer(1958). Her children's book The Diddakoi won the Whitbread Award in 1972.
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, June 1958
NPG x88211
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 10 February 1970
NPG x16456
Rumer Godden; Jon Godden (Winsome Ruth Key Godden)
by Mark Gerson
bromide print
NPG x16458
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Jude Awdry
28 December 2020, 16:05
Rumer Godden lived in Speen, Buckinghamshire where I have lived for 38 years. There is a photo of her with her daughters, Jane and Paula, taken in 1949 at their house The Old House in a book titled The Leaves of Time. She references Speen in her autobiographical work A House with Four Rooms.