Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on December 11, 1945, the first of three girls. Six years later her family emigrated to England where her father, an ex-policeman, wanted to study for the Anglican ministry.They lived in an ancient and very dilapidated cottage in the heart of the English Buckinghamshire woodland, and later in a small village in Oxfordshire called Great Haseley. She grew up surrounded by countryside that she observed, played in, and grew to know and love passionately, and she wrote lyrically of its many moods.