As the title suggests, this is a children’s fantasy novel. He wrote The Princess and the Goblin, which is probably his most famous book, and it was published in 1872. Five years later, in 1850, he was appointed a minister of a Congregational church, and he also took to writing. It looked like he might have been on a career path for medicine, but then he set out for theological training. His degree was not in literature but in chemistry and physics, of all things. Shakespeare, Celtic poetry, the classics- this was the stuff of MacDonald’s childhood.Īt the age of twenty, he had a Master of Arts from the University of Aberdeen.
Those are people who love books and literary scholars. George MacDonald’s immediate and extended family was full of bibliophiles. It had a golf club and at that time a population of about two thousand or so. There was a castle in Huntly that dated back to the twelfth century. George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824, in Huntly, Scotland, about forty miles northwest of Aberdeen. Lewis himself once said, “As my master indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him.” The master that Lewis is referring to his George MacDonald. But here’s a question for you: Who influenced this influencer?Ĭ.S. There’s something about “The Weight of Glory” that I could read it again and again. You likely have well-worn copies of The Chronicles of Narnia around your home.
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