Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
George MacDonald
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Standard Name: MacDonald, George,, 1824 - 1905
Connections
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Anthologization | Jean Ingelow | In 1960 Mopsa was included in To the Land of Fair Delight, a collection with an introduction by Noel Streatfeild
which also includes tales by G. E. Farrow
and George MacDonald
. In 1992... |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Education | Enid Blyton | Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:... |
Education | Angela Brazil | Her home, too, contributed importantly to her education. She drew, painted, and made serious, carefully-labelled collections of wild flowers, stones, shells, and seaweed. Her first book, encountered at home when she was five and a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | Both in Italy for health reasons, EGB
and Esther Roper met at the Bordighera home of novelist George MacDonald
. Esther later recalled one of their first conversations: At once I was met by an... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | ST
's literary friends by now included Dora Greenwell
, Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood
, Anna Maria (Mrs S. C.) Hall
, and George MacDonald
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Edna Lyall | On her first visit to Norway, EL
met and embarked on what became a lifelong friendship with the Welsh renowned singer Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Williams | SW
read the poetry of George MacDonald
, Dora Greenwell
, and Algernon Charles Swinburne
, and commented on it in her letters. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii. xxii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Marshall's prediction proved true: CMT
's audience disappeared as the Victorian age ended. However, the Dictionary of Literary Biography acknowledges that her successful introduction of imaginative richness into didactic literature influenced other authors and established... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | Based on George MacDonald
's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton
ia to signify the excellence of her education... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | She preferred not to attach her name to her poems, thinking that using a pseudonym would ensure against bringing disgrace to her family name, which had been so illustrious for poetry. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 79 Battersby, Christine. “Her Blood and His Mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray, and the Female Self”. Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, edited by Richard Eldridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 249-72. 254 |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA
when they were young, Edith Wharton
stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother... |
Publishing | Edna Lyall | She was introduced to the publishers of this novel, Hurst and Blackett
, through the good offices of the writer George Macdonald
. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 45 |
Timeline
10 December 1824: Novelist George MacDonald was born at Upper...
Writing climate item
10 December 1824
Novelist George MacDonald
was born at Upper Pirriesmill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163
November 1868-October 1869: George MacDonald's children's book At the...
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November 1868-October 1869
George MacDonald
's children's book At the Back of the North Wind appeared serially in Good Words for the Young.
Raeper, William. George MacDonald. Lion Publishing, 1987.
269, 322, 423
Wolff, Robert Lee. The Golden Key. Yale University Press, 1961.
110
Saintsbury, Elizabeth. George MacDonald: A Short Life. Canongate, 1987.
105
16 May 1871: Henry S. King (husband of the poet Harriet...
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16 May 1871
Henry S. King
(husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King
) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co.
at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul
in 1877, it...
1872: George MacDonald's children's classic, The...
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1872
George MacDonald
's children's classic, The Princess and the Goblin, appeared in volume form.
Raeper, William. George MacDonald. Lion Publishing, 1987.
269, 423
Wolff, Robert Lee. The Golden Key. Yale University Press, 1961.
110
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
September 1905: George MacDonald, novelist, died in Ashtead,...
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September 1905
George MacDonald
, novelist, died in Ashtead, Surrey.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
163
Texts
Ingelow, Jean et al. To the Land of Fair Delight. Franklin Watts, 1960.