She went on to teach design and handicrafts in Ely and Oxford. Elizabeth was educated at Grassendale School, Southbourne (1914–1918) and the art school of University College Reading, then an extension college of Christ Church. The family moved to Ely, when he became principal of the Theological College there, and then to Christ Church, Oxford, when he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at the University. Her mother (born Ida de Beauchamp Collenette, 1874–1951) came from Guernsey, where Henry had met her while on holiday. Goudge was born on 24 April 1900 in Tower House in The Liberty of the cathedral city of Wells, Somerset, where her father, Henry Leighton Goudge, was vice-principal of the Theological College. Rowling identified The Little White Horse as one of her favourite books and one of few with a direct influence on the Harry Potter series. In 1993 her book The Rosemary Tree was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen the "new" novel set in India was warmly reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post before its source was discovered. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books.
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