Old Photograph George MacDonald Scotland

Old photograph of George MacDonald who was born on 10 December 1824 in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. George was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. He took his degree at the University of Aberdeen, and then went to London, England, studying at Highbury College for the Congregational ministry. He went to London and taught for some time at the University of London. MacDonald was also for a time editor of Good Words for the Young, and lectured successfully in the United States during 1872 to 1873. His best known works are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith, all fantasy novels, and fairy tales such as The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. " I write, not for children, " he wrote, " but for the child like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy five. " MacDonald also published some volumes of sermons, the pulpit not having proved an unreservedly successful venue. He died on 18 September 1905.



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