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The Golden Key is the premier on-line resource for all things related to Victorian Novelist, Poet and Christian Fantasy writer George MacDonald (1824-1905) and home to the Wingfold Email List and George MacDonald Society

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The Wingfold Email list is a lively community of people from various walks of life who share a common interest in George MacDonald. You will find a warm welcome here. By popular demand the Wingfold Calendar (A George MacDonald quote for each day of the year) is back!

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George MacDonald Society

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was one of the most original of nineteenth century thinkers. MacDonald's writing has an outstanding imaginative power, largely influenced by the German and English Romantics. It is in the realms of fantasy and children's literature, along with his visionary theology, that has made his greatest contribution.

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George MacDonald: Merging Myth and Method (pdf). The Journal for George MacDonald Studies, Northwind, called this article “an excellent introduction to MacDonald for the genuinely interested reader containing by far the best brief critical overview of MacDonald scholarship yet published.”

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New Book! - The Near Loss of Everything

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n the summer of 1887, George MacDonald's son Ronald, newly engaged to artist Louise Blandy, sailed from England to America to teach school. The next summer he returned to England to marry Louise and bring her back to America. Soon afterward he secured a five-year position as headmaster of Ravenscroft High School in Asheville, North Carolina. On August 27, 1890, after less than a year in his new position, his wife died leaving him with an infant daughter. Ronald once described losing a beloved spouse as "the near loss of everything." Ronald's story is mentioned briefly in biographies of his father, but Asheville resident and MacDonald scholar, Dale Wayne Slusser, presents new information, unpublished letters, and over 30 illustrations. Also included are Ronald's essay about his father, "George MacDonald: A Personal Note," plus a selection from "The Laughing Elf," his 1922 fable about the necessity of both sorrow and joy in life.

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