Julia Goddard

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Julia Bachope Goddard (11 July 1825 – 30 September 1896), was a British children's writer of more than 25 books, animal welfare campaigner, journalist and artist.

Early life

She was born in

The Great Exhibition. He also wrote pamphlets on free trade and currency reform and ran a multi-year writing campaign in The Birmingham Daily Post and The Times of London to try and convince the British public and parliament to side with the Union in the US Civil War. The family were very political, but neither Julia or Samuel ever ran for public office.[1][2] He was the United States' consul in Birmingham, and later became a naturalized British subject.[1][2]

Julia Bachope Goddard 1825-1896

Career

In 1863 Goddard published her first children's book, Karl and the Six Little Dwarfs, and at least a further twenty-five were published over the rest of her career.[1]

Many of her books concentrated on animal welfare, itself mirroring her long-term commitment to helping animals receive more humane treatment, more "moderate humanitarianism", than the "more radical elements in the animal rights' movements or anti-vivisection".[1] According to a contemporary account in the Animals' Friend, Goddard was "one of the hardest and yet most unpretentious workers the movement has yet possessed".[1]

Personal life

She never married.[1]

Later life

Goddard suffered from extremely poor health from 1894 onwards after a severe case of influenza, and together with her failing eyesight, she had to stop writing.[1]

She was unmarried and lived with her sister, Fanny Delavan Goddard, in a cottage in

cerebral haemorrhage on 30 September 1896.[1]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Julia Goddard". oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7884-0703-1
    . Retrieved 17 November 2017.
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