Male : Poet & Novelist. First Editor of the magazine Good Words for the Young. Awarded a Civil List pension in 1877 by Queen Victoria

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Huntly, Aberdeenshire

Date of Birth : 1824 Date of Death : 1905 Age : 81

Other Work : Congregational Minister. Professor of Eng Lit at Bedford & King's College, London

Education : King's College, Aberdeen University & Highbury Theological College

1851-1860
(Trans) Twelve of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis (1851 Strahan)
(Trans) Exotics (1851 Strahan)
Within and Without : A Dramatic Poem (1856 Longman) (1872 Scribner, Armstrong)
Poems (1857 Longman) (1887 Dutton)
Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men & Women (1858 Smith Elder) (1870 Loring)

1861-1870
David Elginbrod (1862 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1863 Loring, Boston)
The Giant's Heart (1863 published in "Illustrated London News as "Tell Us a Story") - short story
Adela Cathcart (1864 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1864 Loring, Boston)
The Portent : A Story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders (1864 Smith Elder) (1864 Loring)
An Invalid's Winter in Algeria (1864 Strahan) - Millais & Pinwell
Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols. Arthur Hughes
On Polish (1865 Strahan)
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1867 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1867 Harper)
Unspoken Sermons (1867 Strahan)
Guild Court : A London Story (1867 Strahan)
The Disciple & Other Poems (1867 Strahan)
The Seaboard Parish (1868 Tinsley) - 3 vols
England's Antiphon (1868 Macmillan) (1868 Lippincott)
Dealings with the Fairies (1867 Alexander Strahan, London) (1868 2nd Ed) - Arthur Hughes
Discipleship (1868 Strahan)
Robert Falconer (1868 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1868 Loring)
The Miracles of Our Lord (1870 Strahan)

1871-1880
Works of Fancy and Imagination (1871 Strahan) - 10 vols in a slipcase
At the Back of the North Wind (1871 Strahan) (c1871 Routledge NY) - Arthur Hughes
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (1871 Strahan) (1879 Lippincott) (1890 Blackie) - Arthur Hughes
A Spiritual Song (1871 Strahan)
The Princess and the Goblin (1872 Strahan) (1871 Lippincott) - Arthur Hughes
[Serialized in the magazine "Good Words for the Young" Nov 1870 to June 1871]
[Filmed in 1997]
Wilfred Cumbermede : An Autobiographical Story (1872 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols
(1872 Scribner)
The Vicar's Daughter (1872 Tinsley) - 3 vols (1872 Roberts)
Gutta Percha Willie : The Working Genius (1873 Henry S King) - Arthur Hughes
England's Antiphon (1874 Macmillan) - Arthur Hughes
Cure for Thought-Taking (c1874 Warren & Warren, NY)
Malcolm (1875 King) - 3 vols (1877 Lippincott)
St George and St Michael (1876 King) - 3 vols (1876 Ford)
Thomas Wingfold (1876 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1876 Routledge NY)
The Wise Woman : A Parable (1875 Strahan)
The Marquis of Lossie (1877 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1877 Lippincott)
Paul Faber (1879 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1879 Lippincott)
Sir Gibbie (1879 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1879 Lippincott)
A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul (1880 Longman)
(1880 PP for Author)

1881-1890
Mary Marston (1881 Sampson Low) - 3 vols (1881 Appleton)
Warlock o' Glen Warlock (1881 Lothrop) (in UK as "Castle Warlock" 1882 Sampson Low - 3 vols)
Orts (1882 Sampson Low)
Weighed and Wanting (1882 Sampson Low) - 3 vols (1882 Lothrop)
The Gifts of the Child Christ (1882 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
Donal Grant (1883 Kegan Paul - 3 vols) (1883 Lothrop, Boston)
The Princess and Curdie (1883 Chatto & Windus) (1883 Lippincott) - James Allen
[Serialized in the magazine "Good Things" from Jan to June 1877]
Unspoken Sermons : 2nd Series (1885 Longmans)
What's Mine's Mine (1886 Kegan Paul) - 3 vols (1886 Lothrop)
Cross Puprose and The Shadows (1886 Blackie) - H M Brock
The History of Gutta Percha Willie (1887 Blackie) - Arthur Hughes
Home Again (1887 Kegan Paul) (1888 Appleton)
The Elect Lady (1888 Kegan Paul) (1888 Appleton)
Unspoken Sermons : 3rd Series (1889 Longmans)
The Light Princess & Other Fairy Stories (1890 Blackie) - L Leslie Brooke

1891-1900
A Rough Shaking (1891 Blackie) - W Parkinson
The Flight of the Shadow (1891 Kegan Paul) (1891 Appleton)
The Light Princess & Other Fairy Tales (1891 Blackie) (1893 Putnam) - Maud Humphrey
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney (1892 Elliot Stock)
The Hope of the Gospel (1892 Ward Lock) (1892 Appleton)
The Poetical Works (1893 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Heather and Snow (1893 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols (1893 Harper)
A Dish of Orts (1893 Sampson Low)
Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men & Women (1894 C & W. New Ed) - John Bell
Lilith : A Romance (1895 Chatto & Windus)
The Lost Princess, or The Wise Woman (1895 Wells Gardner, Darton) - A G Walker
Salted with Fire (1897 Hurst & Blackett) (1897 Dodd Mead)
Far Above Rubies (1899 Dodd Mead US)

1901-1910
Fairy Tales (1904 Fifield) - 5 parts (1904 Fifield - single vol)
Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men & Women (1905 Dent) - Arthur Hughes
Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men & Women (1905 Fifield, London) - Arthur Hughes
The Golden Key (1906 Crowell US)
The Princess and the Goblin (1907 Lippincott) - Maria Kirk
The Vicar's Daughter : An Autobiographical Story
(1908 Edward Dalton) - Cyrus Cuneo & G H Evison

1911-1930
The Princess and Curdie (1911 Blackie) - Helen Stratton
At the Back of the North Wind (1911 Blackie) - Frank C Pape
The Princess and the Goblin (1911 Blackie) - Arthur Hughes & Helen Stratton
At the Back of the North Wind (1919 David McKay, US) - Jessie Wilcox Smith
The Princess and the Goblin (1921 McKay) - Jessie Wilcox Smith
At the Back of the North Wind (1924 Macmillan NY) - F D Bedford
The Light Princess (c1926 Blackie) - F D Bedford
The Princess and Curdie (1927 Macmillan NY) - Dorothy P Lathrop

After 1931
The Princess and the Goblin (1949 Dent) - Charles Folkard
The Princess and Curdie (1949 Dent) (1951 Dutton, NY) - Charles Folkard
At the Back of the North Wind (1956 Dent) - E H Shepard
The Light Princess & Other Tales of Fantasy (1961 Gollancz) - Arthur Hughes
At the Back of the North Wind (1963 Nonesuch Press) - Charles Mozley
The Lost Princess (1967 Dent) - 'B B'
The Golden Key (1967 Farrar Straus) (1972 Bodley Head) - Maurice Sendak. Intro W H Auden
The Light Princess (1969 Farrar Straus) (1969 Bodley Head) - Maurice Sendak
The Princess and Curdie (1979 Ark Publishing) - Peter Warne

UNDATED EDITIONS
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (nd. Blackie) - M V Wheelhouse

READING
Joseph Johnson : George MacDonald - A Biographical & Critical Appreciation (1906 Pitman)
Dr Greville MacDonald : George MacDonald and His Wife (1924 Allen & Unwin)
Kathy Triggs : The Stars and the Stillness - A Portrait of George Macdonald (1986 Lutterworth)
William Raeper : George Macdonald (1987 Lion, Herts)
Elizabeth Saintsbury : George Macdonald - A Short Life (1987 Canongate)
Rapahel Shaberman : George Macdonald : A Bibliographical Study
(1990 Omnigraphics, Detroit) - 500 signed
(Ed) Glenn Edward Sadler : An Expression of Character - The Letters of George Macdonald
(1994 Eerdmans, Grand Rapids)