Word: godden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This House of Brede, Godden...
...This House of Brede, Godden...
...This House of Brede, Godden...
...THIS HOUSE OF BREDE by Rumer Godden. 376 pages. Viking...
...career as a British government officer. At least half a dozen more biographies are told with quiet humor and occasionally painful intimacy. Moreover, the order is beset by a fiscal crisis, which is solved when a scapular cross cracks open revealing a ruby as big as the Ritz. Miss Godden's stylistic triumph is the placing of events within the cycles of the divine office and the liturgical year. She lived at England's Stanbrook Benedictine monastery while writing the book, and has translated her observations of life there into a quiet celebration of reverence...