WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Goudge has received more than 239,807 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Elizabeth Goudge is the 5,167th most popular writer (down from 4,601st in 2019), the 3,844th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,477th in 2019) and the 434th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 5,167 out of 7,302. Before her are Hallgrímur Helgason, Ludwig Thoma, Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, Peter Härtling, Richard Powers, and Viktoriya Tokareva. After her are Per Olof Sundman, Ekaterine Gabashvili, János Pilinszky, Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Mats Wahl, and Elinor Glyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 238. Before her are Pierre Braine, Konrad Granström, John C. Slater, Mikel Koliqi, Cecil Griffiths, and Frederick Terman. After her are Devdas Gandhi, Konrad Hirsch, Ernie Pyle, Christian Matras, Nikolai Pogodin, and Alice Neel. Among people deceased in 1984, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 192. Before her are Laurent Grimmonprez, Leopold Lindtberg, Ken Carpenter, Simón Lecue, Jean De Clercq, and Isaak Kikoin. After her are Víctor Balaguer, Alice Neel, Martin Luther King Sr., Bernard Lonergan, Balasaraswati, and Anna Świrszczyńska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 3,844 out of 8,785. Before her are Peter Blake (1932), Frederick Keeping (1867), Eric Gill (1882), Ivor Bueb (1923), Lance Macklin (1919), and Beth Gibbons (1965). After her are Eric A. Havelock (1903), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Frederick Sandys (1829), George Graham (1944), Jim Kerr (1959), and George Hadley (1685).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Goudge ranks 434. Before her are Tanith Lee (1947), Max Beerbohm (1872), William Davenant (1606), George Borrow (1803), Jonathan Stroud (1970), and Anne V. Coates (1925). After her are Nicholas Culpeper (1616), Donald Rayfield (1942), John Farey Sr. (1766), Clara Reeve (1729), David McKee (1935), and Bob Shaw (1931).

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