Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
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Friends, Associates | Rumer Godden | RG
preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir
from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith
(whom she calls... |
Reception | Rumer Godden | One reviewer wrote, [t]here is not enough meat on this book for the library cat, Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999. 200 Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999. 201 |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
, back in England to live, published The River, a short novel about adolescence set in India; it later became a film directed by Jean Renoir
. Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999. 195, 197, 207 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | She wrote this book largely on board ship: on the waterways of Bengal and on the voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool in the year before its publication. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987. 243 |
Travel | Rumer Godden | In mid-June 1949, RG
flew to New York and four days later on to Los Angeles. She stayed with Jean Renoir
in Beverly Hills until August, to work on the filmscript for The River... |