Female : Novelist, Playwright & Poet. Childhood in India. Catholic. Married Lawrence Sinclair Foster, a stockbroker, in 1934. When he became bankrupt in 1941 he left her. Married James Lesley Haynes Dixon in 1949 and returned to live in Rye.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Eastbourne, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1998 Age : 91

Education : Moira House School, Eastbourne

1936-1940
Chinese Puzzle (1936 Peter Davies)
The Lady and the Unicorn (1937 Peter Davies)
Black Narcissus (1939 Peter Davies)
[Filmed in 1947]
Gypsy, Gypsy (1940 Peter Davies)

1941-1950
Breakfast with Nikolides (1942 Peter Davies)
A Fugue in Time (1945 Michael Joseph)
[Filmed in 1948 as "Enchantment"]
Rungli-Rungliot : Thus Far and No Further (1943 Peter Davies)
Bengal Journey : A Story of the Part played by Women in the Province 1938-45 (1945 Longmans)
The River (1946 MJ)
[Filmed in 1951]
The Doll's House (1947 Michael Joseph) (1948 Viking Press NY) - Dana Saintsbury
A Candle for St Jude (1948 MJ) (1948 Viking NY)
In Noah's Ark (1949 Michael Joseph) - verse
A Breath of Air (1950 MJ)

1951-1960
The Mousewife (1951 Macmillan) - Dana Saintsbury
Kingfishers Catch Fire (1953 Macmillan)
Impunity Jane : The Story of a Pocket Doll (1954 Viking Press) (1955 Macmillan) - Adrienne Adams
Hans Christian Andersen : A Biography (1955 Hutchinson) (1955 Knopf)
An Episode of Sparrows (1956 Macmillan 13/6)
[Filmed in 1957 as "Innocent Sinners"]
The Fairy Doll (1956 Macmillan) - Adrienne Adams
Mooltiki & Other Stories and Poems of India (1957 Macmillan 10/6) - ss
Mouse House (1957 Viking Press) (1958 Macmillan) - Adrienne Adams
The Greengage Summer (1958 Macmillan)
[Filmed in 1961]
The Story of Holly and Ivy (1958 Macmillan) - Adrienne Adams
Candy Floss (1960 Macmillan) (1960 Viking Press NY) - Adrienne Adams

1961-1970
St Jerome and the Lion (1961 Macmillan) - Jean Primrose Verse
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (1961 Macmillan) - Jean Primrose
Loss of Innocence (1961)
China Court : The Hours of a Country House (1961 Macmillan) (1961 Viking NY)
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1963 Macmillan)
[Filmed in 1964]
(Trans) Prayers from the Ark (1963 Macmillan)
Little Plum (1963 Macmillan) - Jean Primrose
Home is the Sailor (1964 Macmillan) (1964 Viking NY) - Jean Primrose
Two Under the Indian Sun (1966 Macmillan) - with Jon Godden
Mouse House (1966 Viking NY) -Adrienne Adams
(Trans) The Beasts' Choir (1967 Macmillan)
The Kitchen Madonna (1967 Macmillan) (1967 Viking NY) - Carol Barker
Swans and Turtles (1968 Macmillan) - ss
Mrs Mander's Cookbook (1968 Macmillan) - with Olga Manders
(Chosen & Intro) Emily Dickinson - A Letter to the World (1968 Bodley Head)
In this House of Brede (1969 Macmillan)
Operation Sippacik (1969 Macmillan) -James Bryan
(Compiled) The Raphael Bible (1970 Macmillan)

1971-1980
The Tale of the Tales : the Beatrix Potter Ballet (1971 Warne)
The Old Woman who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle (1972 Macmillan) - Mairi Hedderwick
The Diddakoi (1972 Macmillan) - Creina Glegg
Shiva's Pigeons : An Experience of India (1972 Chatto & Windus) - with Jon Godden
The Peacock Spring (1975 Macmillan)
Mr McFadden's Hallowe'en (1975 Macmillan) - Ann Strugnell
The Butterfly Lions : The Pekingese in History, Legend & Art (1977 Viking Press)
The Rocking Horse Secret (1977 Macmillan) - Juliet Stanwell Smith
A Kindle of Kittens (1978 Macmillan) - Lynne Barnes
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (1979 Macmillan)
Gulbadan : Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court (1980 Macmillan)

1981-1990
The Dark Horse (1981 Macmillan)
The Dragon of Og (1981 Macmillan) - Pauline Baynes
The Mousewife (1982 Viking NY) - Heidi Holder
Four Dolls (1983 Macmillan) - First combined edition. Pauline Baynes
Thursday Children (1984 Macmillan)
Story of Holly and Ivy (1985 Viking Kestrel NY) - Barbara Cooney
The Valiant Chatti-Maker (1986 Macmillan) - Jeroo Roy
A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep : A Memoir (1987 Macmillan)
A House with Four Rooms (1989 Macmillan)
Indian Dust (1989 Macmillan) - ss. with Jon Godden
Fu-Dog (1989 Julia MacRae)

1991 onwards
Corromandel Sea Change (1991 Macmillan)
Great Grandfather's House (1993 Macmillan)
Listen to the Nightingale (1993 Macmillan)
Premlata and the Festival of Lights (1993 Macmillan)
Pippa Passes (1994 Macmillan)
Cromartie v the God Shiva Acting through the Government of India (1997 Macmillan £14.99)

READING
Hassell A Simpson : Rumer Godden (1973 Twayne, US)
Lynne M Rosenthal : Rumer Godden Revisited (1996 Twayne US)