MacDonald's step-uncle was a Shakespeare scholar, and his paternal cousin another Celtic academic. His paternal grandfather had supported the publication of an edition of James Macpherson's Ossian, the controversial epic poem based on the Fenian Cycle of Celtic Mythology and which contributed to the starting of European Romanticism. MacDonald grew up in an unusually literate environment: one of his maternal uncles was a notable Celtic scholar, editor of the Gaelic Highland Dictionary and collector of fairy tales and Celtic oral poetry. His father, a farmer, was descended from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 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". Įlizabeth 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." Įven Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by him. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence". A few hours later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. 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. McAllister, Neil Gaiman and Madeleine L'Engle.
Beagle, Elizabeth Goudge, Brian Jacques, M. Chesterton, Robert Hugh Benson, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Fulton Sheen, Flannery O'Connor, Louis Pasteur, Simone Weil, Charles Maurras, Jacques Maritain, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, C. H. White, Richard Adams, Lloyd Alexander, Hilaire Belloc, G.
Barrie, Lord Dunsany, Elizabeth Yates, Oswald Chambers, Mark Twain, Hope Mirrlees, Robert E. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence on many notable authors including Lewis Carroll, W. H. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister.
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