Godden, (Margaret) Rumer
(1907–1998)
- Anne Chisholm
Extract
Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998), writer, was born on 10 December 1907 at Meads, 30 Milnthorpe Road, Eastbourne, the second of the four daughters of Arthur Leigh Godden (1876–1966), shipping company manager, and his wife, Katherine Norah Hingley (1876–1966). Soon after Godden's birth her mother took her back to ...