The complete online text of Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald.

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...

HODGSON'S ROOMS at 115 Chancery Lane were founded in 1807, and survived as a book-auction saleroom, almost unchanged, until 1981; they have now become a wine bar, but the shadow of their former existence lingers on. Wilfrid Hodgson was the last member of the...

Musicologist and composer Wilfrid Mellers exerted an enormous influence on several generations of British musicians at their most impressionable phase - as university students. He started the Music Department at York University in 1964 and it quickly became a beacon of enlightenment at...