Citations:

  • George MacDonald, Thomas Wingfold, Curate (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1876).
  • George MacDonald, Thomas Wingfold, Curate (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876).

Bulloch (1925):

Thomas Wingfold, curate. By George MacDonald, LL.D. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1876.

8vo

  • vol. I., pp. iv + 294
  • vol. II., pp. iv + 314
  • vol. III., pp. iv + 305 + (3)

Reviewed in the Athenaeum (Nov. 11, 1876, p. 622).

This novel which has a sequel in “Paul Faber,” is the story of a young clergyman who enters the church simply as a profession, was reviewed in the Fortnightly Rev. (Jan., 1877, xxvii., 93-96) by
Andrew Lang, who declared that “a work more likely to encourage unhealthy feeling and the taste for the feverish rhetoric of religious feeling, one has rarely seen.”

  • 1876. Serialised in the Day of Rest (weekly, Jan.-Dec., 1876), vol. v.
  • 1879. Published in Munro’s Seaside Library, New York.
  • (1880.) Published by Strahan: and printed by Cowan, Perth: 8vo,
  • pp. viii + 510 + (2 adv.).
  • 1880. Published by Lothrop, Boston.
  • 1883. Published by Chatto and Windus: 12mo (” English Cat.”).
  • 1886. Published by Kegan Paul.
  • 1893. Published by Kegan Paul: pp. 518.
  • 1901. Published by Kegan Paul: pp. 518: price is. 6d.
  • N.D. Published by McKay, Philadelphia.

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