Magdalen Goffin

{{Short description|English writer}}

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Magdalen Goffin, FRSL (23 July 1925 – 2015)[https://rsliterature.org/fellow/magdalen-goffin-3/ "Magdalen Goffin"], Fellows Remembered, The Royal Society of Literature. was an English writer, born in Sheringham, Norfolk, England, UK. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) 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.[http://www.watkinsfhs.net/?Famous_Watkins_People:Absalom_Watkin "Absalom Watkin"], Watkins Family History Society. Mrs. Goffin also wrote numerous articles and reviews for the New York Review of Books (1966–69).

==Publications==

• Objections to Roman Catholicism. Constable, 1964. (contrib chapter "Superstition and Credulity")
• The Future of Catholic Christianity. Constable, 1966. (contrib chapter "The Broken Pitcher")
• Maria Pasqua. Oxford University Press, 1979. {{ISBN|978-0-19-211754-0}}. Faber & Faber, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-571-25034-9}}.
• The Diaries of Absalom Watkin: A Manchester Man 1787-1861. Sutton Publishing,1993. {{ISBN|978-0-7509-0417-9}}.
• The Watkin Path - An Approach to Belief: The Life of E. I. Watkin. Sussex Academic Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-84519-128-3}}.