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G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden
1867–1947
An English writer with wide-ranging interests, she moved from folklore and anthropology into biography and political commentary. Her work on Henry Fielding remains the title most often remembered today.
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Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints
by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden
About the author
Gertrude Mary Godden (17 July 1867 – 15 February 1947) was a British author whose writing covered anthropology, folklore, biography, and later politics. Sources consistently describe her as a writer who worked largely from England rather than through field travel, and she published on traditional belief as well as on broader cultural questions.
She is especially associated with studies and essays in anthropology and folklore, along with a substantial memoir of Henry Fielding that has stayed in circulation through public-domain and library editions. Catalog and reference sources also show that her later books turned toward contemporary political subjects, including Soviet Russia, Spain, and Mussolini.
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