George MacDonald is born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
MacDonald family moves “across the parish boundary, the river Bogie, having built the house now called Greenkirtle” (“George MacDonald of…
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George MacDonald’s mother, Helen MacKay MacDonald, dies (Sadler 4).
MacDonald, age 8, writes letter to his father from Portsoy (Sadler 5).
George MacDonald’s father marries Margaret McColl (Sadler 4).
MacDonald begins university at King’s College at the University of Aberdeen (Sadler 4).
MacDonald graduates from Aberdeen with a Master of Arts degree “and takes a position as tutor with the Radermacher family…
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MacDonald anonymously publishes poem “David” (Sadler 4).
MacDonald enrolls in Highbury Theological College in London.
MacDonald and Louisa Powell are engaged (Sadler 4).
MacDonald accepts a position pastoring Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel, Sussex, England (Sadler 4).
George MacDonald and Louisa Powell marry.
MacDonald gives a lecture series on English Literature, Physical Science, Natural Philosophy, and Mathematics at Manchester Ladies College. Source: …
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MacDonald lectures on Elizabethan Literature at his residence (3 Camp Terrace, Lower Broughton, Manchester), the first of twelve lectures for…
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MacDonald gives a lecture series on Natural Philosophy at Manchester Ladies College. Source: Ricke, Joe, Ashley Chu, Kendra Smalley,…
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MacDonald gives lecture series at residence (3 Camp Terrace, Lower Broughton, Manchester). Source: Ricke, Joe, Ashley Chu, Kendra Smalley,…
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MacDonald theatre troupe performs Pilgrim’s Progress in Clifton (handwritten note, inside cover of 1875 First Edition facsimile of Pilgrim’s Progress,…
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MacDonald’s third-eldest, Caroline Grace MacDonald Jameson, dies of tuberculosis, leaving behind a husband, the Rev. Kingsbury Jameson, and daughter, Octavia…
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MacDonald theatre troupe performs Pilgrim’s Progress in Glasgow. (ALS from GMD, 225 Bath Street, Glasgow.)
On MacDonald’s sixty-first birthday, Octavia Hill writes to her mother that they are celebrating in Bordighera by “having some charades…
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MacDonald’s granddaughter Octavia Jameson, Grace’s daughter, dies of tuberculous meningitis at the age of eight or nine (GMAW 503).
MacDonald writes letter to John Stuart Blackie from Bordighera.
George and Louisa’s 50th wedding anniversary was March 8, but they celebrated it with friends and family in June at…
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Louisa Powell MacDonald dies. She is buried in Bordighera, Italy (GMAW 561-62).
George MacDonald dies in Surrey.
MacDonald funeral held at Ashtead Parish Church, attended by family and close friends, including Octavia Hill, Arthur Hughes, and Ted…
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