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George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.
Comprehensive source of information on the sermons, poems, novels, children's stories, and fantasies of George MacDonald, plus pictures, poems, and songs inspired by MacDonald and essays about him.
Apr 7, 2022 · George MacDonald was a pastor, teacher, public speaker, writer of fairytales who influenced C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and many other things as well. So why don't more people know about this surprising and impressive man?
George Macdonald was a novelist of Scottish life, poet, and writer of Christian allegories of man’s pilgrimage back to God. However, he is remembered chiefly for his allegorical fairy stories, which have continued to delight children and their elders.
GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905), forerunner of the Inklings—Scottish minister, poet, novelist, and imaginative seer—was one of the most beloved Victorian authors throughout Great Britain and the U.S. in the 19th century.
George MacDonald's life (1824-1905) spanned the greater part of the nineteenth century. He was a devout Scotsman steeped in a history full of bards, pipers, intense loyalties, clan feuds, and a long line of Scottish heroic figures.
A professor and lecturer in the discipline of English Literature for more than 40 years, MacDonald was a novelist, essayist, writer of faëry and short stories, poet, pastor, thespian, and social reformer.
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books.
GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905), forerunner of the Inklings–Scottish minister, poet, novelist, and imaginative seer– was one of the most beloved Victorian authors throughout Great Britain and the U.S. in the 19th century.
His boyhood was set in a traditional rural atmosphere, compounded of Calvinist hellfire, oatcakes, horsemanship, agricultural virtues, and exploration of neighborhood ruins and wildernesses.
