George MacDonald A Writer's Life

A comprehensive bibliographic biography of 19th century Scotsman George MacDonald, focusing on the development of his written corpus of works and how they emerged out of the events and circumstances of his life.   In 1879 George MacDonald said that no biography should be written of a man still living. He wrote: “I trust the outer life of one who has written a good many volumes tending to reveal most that is worth knowing of his inner life, will be forgotten in this world, after he has left it…I do not like or approve…of publicizing live people. If anything is left after a hundred years, accompanied by a desire to know, then is soon enough.” This major new work by Michael Phillips thus qualifies as the first biography of MacDonald written, according to that criteria, more than a hundred years after his death.   At over 600 pages, it the longest biography ever written about the Scotsman, focusing on the development and progressive publication of his written works, explaining how the ev