During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Quarterly Review called him "one of the most popular auth...
Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis Carroll (MacDonald's children read "Alice's Adventures...
George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, his imaginative fairy tales of growth and redemption we...
FOR DAVID THOMPSON, managing director of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, this has been a hair-raising couple of weeks. When he launched his bid for Marston, Thompson & Evershed last November, he was aware of the possibility that Marstons would turn round and bid for...
William Marston Hogue, 77, a native Washingtonian and headmaster from 1962 to 1979 at the Tome School, where he overhauled the curriculum and oversaw the independent, co-educational preparatory school's consolidation at a 100-acre campus in North East, Md., died Jan. 13 at Washington Hospital...
