George MacDonald

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...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

As a girl, the future EG loved to hear Tennyson 's poetry, especially the Idylls of the King (published from 1859), many of which she learned by heart. She also adored George MacDonald 's The...

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:...

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...

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...

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

On her first visit to Norway, EL met and embarked on what became a lifelong friendship with the Welsh renowned singerMary Davies . Her other friends who themselves were writers were George Macdonald

ST 's literary friends by now included Dora Greenwell , Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood , Anna Maria (Mrs S. C.) Hall , and George MacDonald .

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...

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. She took...

SW read the poetry of George MacDonald , Dora Greenwell , and Algernon Charles Swinburne , and commented on it in her letters. Of the last-named she wrote, Surely such music cannot be destined...

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...

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...

She was introduced to the publishers of this novel, Hurst and Blackett , through the good offices of the writer George Macdonald . She dedicated the work to her cousin the Rev. Philip Newnham