Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth Goudge was a British author that wrote 'The Little White horse’, a highly popular fantasy novel for children that inspired J.K. Rowling to write her own magical series. +Biography Born Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge in the town of Wells, Somerset in 1900, Elizabeth Goudge’s father was a reverend who met her mother while on Holiday. Elizabeth had great memories of her childhood in Wells where horses and carriages remained commonplace for a very long time.

The best place to start is the Torminster Saga series, the earliest of Elizabeth Goudge's multi-book series: it opens with A City of Bells (1936) and runs to 3 books across 1936–1942, ending with Henrietta's House / The Blue Hills (1942). Elizabeth Goudge's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Elizabeth Goudge has 43 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1934 and 2002. 8 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being The Eliots of Damerosehay series with 3 books — and 35 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Elizabeth Goudge's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Du Frocq Family (1934–1949, 2 books), Torminster Saga (1936–1942, 3 books) and The Eliots of Damerosehay (1940–1953, 3 books).

This guide splits Elizabeth Goudge's 43 books into 3 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Eliots of Damerosehay (3 books, 1940–1953); Torminster Saga (3 books, 1936–1942); Du Frocq Family (2 books, 1934–1949).