George MacDonald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George MacDonald

Scottish journalist, novelist

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1824

Place of Birth: Huntly, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1905

Profession: writer, poet, theologian, minister, journalist, cleric, philosopher, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About George MacDonald

  • George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister.
  • He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.
  • In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works on Christian apologetics. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including Lewis Carroll, W.
  • H.
  • Auden, J.
  • M.
  • Barrie, Lord Dunsany, Elizabeth Yates, Oswald Chambers, Mark Twain, Hope Mirrlees, Robert E.
  • Howard, L.
  • Frank Baum, T.H.
  • White, Richard Adams, Lloyd Alexander, Hilaire Belloc, G.K.
  • Chesterton, C.
  • S.
  • Lewis, J.
  • R.
  • R.
  • Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E.
  • Nesbit, Peter S.
  • Beagle, Neil Gaiman and Madeleine L'Engle.C.
  • S.
  • Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read.
  • A few hours later", said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G.
  • K.
  • Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling."Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by him.
  • The Christian author Oswald Chambers wrote in his "Christian Disciplines" that "it is a striking indication of the trend and shallowness of the modern reading public that George MacDonald's books have been so neglected".

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