Rumer Godden died a year later on November 8, 1998, in Thornhill, Scotland, at the age of 90. She published her 21st novel, 'Cromartie vs.

Rumer Godden was the author of more than 60 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Rumer Godden (19071998) Author of In This House of Brede Includes the names: Godden Rumer, Rumer Godden, Rumer Godden, Rumer Godden etc., Margret Rumer Godden Disambiguation Notice Please dont combine this author with her sister Jon Godden. Another novel of India, 'The River,' published in 1949, was one of her most acclaimed books and was made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1951. In an effort to pay off her former husband's debts, Godden moved her family into a mountain cottage where she ran a school, made herbal teas for sale, and wrote books. Her marriage to a stockbroker, Laurence Sinclair Foster, ended in 1941, leaving her penniless. Returning to England while she was pregnant, she wrote her first book, 'Chinese Puzzle,' published in 1936. She returned to London at age 20 to learn how to teach dance to children, and opened a school back in India. She was nine months old when her family moved to India, where her father ran a shipping line. The English author of fiction Rumer Godden (1907-1998) had nine of her works made into movies, including 'The River' and 'Black Narcissus'.Margaret Rumer Godden was born Dec. Klein comments that he is enclosing a copy of a review and that of a letter he wrote to the Editor of the Observer. A perfect matching of subject and author, this biography of Hans Christian Andersen recreates the life of the famous Danish poet with much of the same charm.

In his second letter, really more of a short note, Dr. Klein thanks her for the copy of the American edition of her book and comments on her writing about the Japanese professor who 'learned Danish to read Andersen in the original'. Together with retained copies of 2 of Richard Klein's typed letters to her, dated Apand August 25, 1955. Signed 'Rumer Haynes-Dixon (Rumer Godden)'.

Klein for his review of her book in the 'Jewish Chronicle', observing that he was the only one to mention that there was an index in the American edition of her book which was omitted by the publisher in the English edition and apologizes for a 'slip' she made about 'The Two Baronesses'. Over 80 words typed on her 9 inch high by 7 inch wide 'Pollards, Whiteleaf' stationery.

Hans Christian Andersen by Rumer Godden