A House with Four Rooms (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rumer Godden
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1945-1977
- Setting: England, India, the United States, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Rumer Godden, Jane Foster, Paula Foster, Arthur (Fa) Godden, Katherine (Mam) Godden, Jon Godden, James Hayne-Dixon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Sexism, Authors or writers, Marriage, England or English people, Death or dying, India or East Indian people, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Animals
- Locales: United States, England, Italy, India
The title of Rumer Godden’s second autobiographical book is explained in an introductory note by the author: “There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
Rumer Godden’s first autobiographical book, A Time to Dance, No Time to Cry (1988), made it clear that there was never much danger of her failing to rise to the...
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