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	George MacDonald - Biography and Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George Macdonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, clergyman and author of children's stories was admired by many of his peers for his tender spirituality through his graceful poems and fantastical verse.
		George Macdonald was born at Huntly, in the western part of Aberdeenshire on 10 December, 1824, the son of George Macdonald, farmer, and Helen MacKay.
		All MacDonald's fiction (excepting maybe some of the fantasy) is "God-breathed," in a sense, because George MacDonald lived the life of the true Christian, the man or woman who walks in the light of Christ, not just talks the talk.
	www.online-literature.com /george-macdonald (840 words)

	George MacDonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692.
		MacDonald rejected the doctrine of penal Substitutionary atonement as put forward by John Calvin which argues that Christ has taken the place of sinners and is punished by God in their place, believing that in turn it raised serious questions about the character and nature of God.
		MacDonald was convinced that God does not punish except to amend, and that the sole end of His greatest anger is the amelioration of the guilty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_MacDonald (1496 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - George MacDonald
		George MacDonald was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire in 1824.
		The MacDonalds were a prominent family in the community both in terms of business and with the religious community.
		MacDonald went to university in Aberdeen where he studied Moral Philosophy and Sciences under some of the leading thinkers of the age, an experience which was to colour his liberal and heterodox thinking.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/george_macdonald (423 words)

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		George MacDonald deliberately avoided setting out his ideas as a defined theological "system" preferring to allow his ideas and words to create a personal response in the hearer.
		MacDonald would accept no compromise with sin but saw evil as a discord that will eventually be brought into harmony with God when the whole of creation is reunited with him.
		MacDonald sought to express the divine in the human, and the human in the divine.
	www.savior-of-all.com /macdonald.html (1719 words)

	Mark Twain and George MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the fall of 1872 George MacDonald crossed the Atlantic on a Cunard oceanliner and arrived in Boston with his wife Louisa and oldest son Greville, for a triumphant United States lecture tour.
		Then she added, "and mamma and papa were quite well acquainted with Dr. MacDonald and family." 10 Mark Twain quoted that passage from Susy in his autobiography and mentioned in passing that George MacDonald was a lively talker.
		MacDonald's story is about a mute, barefoot, illiterate child of the streets in a city in northeastern Scotland; his mother is dead and his father is a miserable alcoholic.
	www.george-macdonald.com /mark_twain.htm (5168 words)

	George MacDonald
		MacDonald also served as a mentor to Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson); it was MacDonald's advice, and the enthusiastic reception of Alice by MacDonald's three young daughters that convinced Carroll to submit Alice for publication.
		MacDonald was also friends with John Ruskin and served as a go-between in Ruskin's long love affiar with Rose la Touche.
		MacDonald's more realistic novels, such as Alec Forbes, had their influence as well; they were among the first realistic Scottish novels, and as such MacDonald has been credited with founding the "kailyard school" of Scottish writing.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/George_MacDonald.php (945 words)

	George Macdonald: Biography
		eorge Macdonald, Scottish novelist, poet, clergyman, and author of children's stories, was born at Huntly, in the western part of Aberdeenshire, the son of George Macdonald and Helen MacKay.
		Macdonald was converted to the Church of England, becoming a lay member in 1860; but he continued to preach independently at intervals.
		Here the Macdonald family led a merry life, for although Macdonald had a vein of Celtic melancholy in him, he was merry and amiable, and readings and amateur theatricals were frequent in his house, (The praise of the Macdonald children for his manuscripts was what induced Lewis Carroll to publish his work.)
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/gm/bio.html (516 words)

	George MacDonald and Michael Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George MacDonald and His Wife is invaluable as a source of information, as a repository of letters unpublished elsewhere, and, to a lesser extent, for its earnest but rather inexpert critical commentary.
		After a long illness George MacDonald died in 1905, leaving behind him a record of grim struggles, of the nobility with which he bore them, and of the reverence in which he was held by everyone who knew him.
		MacDonald, not unlike his great contemporary Dostoevsky, knew that the novel provides a means of testing the validity of theological principles, a means the like of which the seeker after Truth can hardly afford to ignore.
	www.macdonaldphillips.com /legacy.html (6693 words)

	George MacDonald: half a century of news
		George was born in England in 1881, and while he was a teenager, landed his first job on a newspaper as a printer's helper on the London Times.
		George was the main CP staff reporter for Quebec and the rest of eastern Canada, and sometimes the eastern United States, so he travelled quite a bit.
		George later went into the executive ranks of the Canadian Press, and by at least 1924, was Quebec superintendent.
	members.tripod.com /~Hughdoherty/george.htm (473 words)

	George MacDonald - HSTreasures.com
		MacDonald's main characters live out and apply the word, the lessons, and the life and character of Christ with excellence.
		MacDonald is a supreme example of the necessity that we must use our discernment to pick and choose according to our own convictions.
		MacDonald authored a few fairy tales stories that I feel are such a contrast from his novels.
	www.hstreasures.com /authors/george_macdonald.html (1736 words)

	George MacDonald. An Antology (edited by C.S.Lewis)
		George MacDonald's family (though hardly his father) were of course Calvinists.
		But they had misjudged their man. MacDonald merely replied that this was bad enough news for him but that he supposed he must try to live on less.
		MacDonald shows God threatening, but (as Jeremy Taylor says) "He threatens terrible things if we will not be happy." In many respects MacDonald's thought has, in a high degree, just those excellences which his period and his personal history would lead us to expect least.
	lib.ru /LEWISCL/mcdonalds_antology.txt (19951 words)

	George MacDonald, a brief biography
		George MacDonald, Scottish Victorian novelist, began his adult life as a clergyman and always considered himself a poet first of all.
		MacDonald died in 1905 and his reputation gradually declined in the 20th century.
		Obscure though his name gradually became, however, MacDonald was read and revered by an impressive gallery of well-known figures, both in his own time and in the years since.
	www.tentmaker.org /biographies/macdonald.htm (526 words)

	George MacDonald Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		He was a contemporary of Lewis Carroll (MacDonald's children read "Alice's Adventures Underground," an early version of the first Alice book, and encouraged the author to publish his story) and of Charles Kingsley.
		MacDonald's fiction has influenced twentieth-century fantasists, most notably C. Lewis, and his work has been praised by W. Auden.
		MacDonald, son of George MacDonald and Helen MacKay MacDonald, was born on 10 December 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and was one of six children.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-macdonald-dlb3 (175 words)

	George MacDonald
		George MacDonald was a prolific nineteenth century Scottish author who authored over fifty volumes of fiction, children's stories, sermons, and poetry.
		In his day MacDonald was friends with an impressive array of authors and thinkers, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
		MacDonald was close friends with writer, critic, and possible pedophile John Ruskin, serving as a go-between in his infatuation with the Rose La Touche.
	www.nndb.com /people/498/000109171 (365 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MacDonald was born in Huntly on 10th December 1824, but moved soon after with his family to a nearby farm.
		MacDonald produced fantasy writing for both children and adults throughout his long career.
		Half of these novels are set wholly or partly in nineteenth century Scotland and they form one of the most important fictional treatments of the Scottish scene between the generation of Scott and his circle, and the time of Stevenson.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/macdodsw.htm (420 words)

	George MacDonald, Malcolm
		George MacDonald is being discovered again as one of the great writers of the Victorian era.
		Duncan, who is a caring and emotional father, nonetheless riles beyond measure at the mention of a "Cawmil." He's obviously of MacDonald kin and is really the star of the story.
		I have an image of MacDonald being pressured for more of this story, but perhaps he had grown tired of the characters or felt he had invested enough in them already, or perhaps he just needed to get a sequel out in a rush.
	www.rambles.net /macdonald_malcolm01.html (667 words)

	September 18: George MacDonald inpsired Lewis and Chesterton
		That is the opening of George MacDonald's most famous book, The Princess and the Goblin, a nineteenth-century fairy tale.
		This is not surprising, for George was a Scottish clergyman.
		Adapted from George MacDonald's Alec Forbes of Howglen.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/09/daily-09-18-2002.shtml (764 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| George MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Scottish poet, novelist, and clergyman, MacDonald is perhaps best known to general audiences today as a fantasist and children's author.
		The following essays are available from The George MacDonald Society, which posts the full texts of some essays from its scholarly journal The North Wind.
		Note that these essays are copyrighted by the George MacDonald Society and may not be reproduced without permission.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/macdonald.html (345 words)

	Amazon.com: George MacDonald: Books: C. S. Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George MacDonald (1824-1905) was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
		George Macdonald Dealings W/ the Fairies — Five incredible tales of fairies and fantasy by George Macdonald, 19th century Scottish author whose works influenced literary great C. Lewis.
		MacDonald was a master Christian apologist of the late 1800s, and an enormous influence on CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, WH Auden, and Charles Williams, to name a few.
	www.amazon.com /George-MacDonald-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060653191 (1403 words)

	George MacDonald
		George MacDonald was born in the north of Scotland, where Gaelic myths and Old Testament stories sank into him and formed the mind that would later cherish imagination as the vehicle of spiritual truth.
		MacDonald supported himself by teaching arithmetic in a school and tutoring privately, in Latin and Greek, children of the Victorian era's merchant class.
		In the course of his preparation for the ministry MacDonald had come to see that reason, while essential to our knowledge and worship of God, of itself does not open the door to that Kingdom whose key is Spirit.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Heritage/george.htm (951 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser Biography
		George MacDonald Fraser nolonger lives in the area but the character of the people and the area is still evident in his writing.
		For his work as an author over the past thirty years George MacDonald Fraser was honoured with an O.B.E by the Her Majesty the Queen July 1999.
		George MacDonald Fraser has been a newspaperman, soldier, novelist ("Flashman"), and screenwriter.
	www.harryflashman.org /GMF.htm (1739 words)

	Amazon.com: The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection): Books: George Macdonald,Arthur ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George MacDonald, a Congregational minister turned novelist, who seems nearly forgotten now, was one of the seminal figures in the development of Fantasy.
		In this book, George Macdonald, the masterful story teller (note: he is not necessarily a good writer, but he is a good story teller), tells the story of Irene the princess.
		In conclusion, the fact that George MacDonald managed to take the topic of faith, wrap it in the rich garb of a childrens story, and have it adored by the world is an amazing feat.
	www.amazon.com /Princess-Goblin-Puffin-Classics-Collection/dp/0140367462 (1827 words)

	George MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish preacher and teacher as well as an author of thirty novels, numerous fairy tales, poetry, essays, and sermons.
		MacDonald’s writing and lecturing brought him great recognition and introduced him into the company of many of the leading Victorians of the time.
		MacDonald’s novels were popular in his day, but then fell out of favor, partly because of his didacticism, and were out of print for many years.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/other/macdonald_george.htm (419 words)

	Amazon.com: Lilith: Books: George MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr.
		Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light.
		For all his antiquated, overly formal prose, MacDonald displays a very poetic sensibility for symbolism; for example, he personifies the sun as "he" and the moon as "she," as if they were a married pair of celestial luminaries.
	www.amazon.com /Lilith-George-MacDonald/dp/0802860613 (1796 words)

	George MacDonald
		George MacDonald (1824-1905) was the single greatest human influence on C. Lewis; indeed MacDonald was Lewis's "spiritual father." So, if you wish to understand C. Lewis, you must read George MacDonald.
		Rolland Hein is one of the greatest authorities on George MacDonald.
		Here is my abridgement of the complete bibliography of MacDonald which Hein offers in his book, The Harmony Within: The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald.
	www.pford.stjohnsem.edu /ford/cslewis/macdonald.htm (205 words)

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