Magdalen Goffin


Magdalen Goffin, FRSL was an English writer, born in Sheringham, Norfolk, England, UK. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature from 1980. She wrote biographies of her grandmother, Maria Pasqua, and her father, E. I. Watkin, and edited the diaries of another ancestor Absalom Watkin. Mrs. Goffin also wrote numerous articles and reviews for the New York Review of Books.

Publications

Objections to Roman Catholicism. Constable, 1964. The Future of Catholic Christianity. Constable, 1966. Maria Pasqua. Oxford University Press, 1979.. Faber & Faber, 2009..The Diaries of Absalom Watkin: A Manchester Man 1787-1861. Sutton Publishing,1993..The Watkin Path - An Approach to Belief: The Life of E. I. Watkin. Sussex Academic Press, 2006..