Jon Godden

The second of four daughters (Jon , Rumer, Nancy, and Rose), she was born in a blizzard, after her mother had fallen downstairs.

RG 's sister Jon , born sixteen months before her,

Though it was a commercial success, Jon Godden (whom Rumer counted her wisest if sternest critic) wrote of this book that it was well done but was the mixture as before; children, animals, flowers, houses...

RG told her sister that this book had only a mention of an animal—one cat—hardly any flowers and not a single live child. Many of her readers, however, disliked its religious content: she faced...

In this novel RG fictionalises the life of herself and her elder sister in India before they went to England in 1920. The younger sister watches enviously her sister's courtship with a young English officer...

RG and her sister Jon had a joint publication in The Illustrated London News: Rumer's part was poetry, and Jon's illustrations.

RG and her sister Jon were sent home from India to live for eighteen months with their paternal grandmother and five unmarried aunts in Randolph Gardens, Maida Vale, London.

RG and her sister Jon were returned from England to India because of the outbreak of war and the threat of Zeppelins over London.

RG and her sister Jon co-authored Two Under the Indian Sun; they jointly used the first person plural for their childhood experiences.

She dedicated it To Jon and the spirit of little Joss, who was born there, and used an epigraph translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley . It was in fact her sister Jon who...

RG landed in Calcutta with her mother and elder sister Jon , her education complete, expected to take up the leisured social life of the English in India.