These are a selection of primary sources, biographies, and references that may be helpful to anyone seeking further understanding of MacDonald’s life:
Primary source documents
Biographies and References
- Greville MacDonald, George MacDonald and His Wife (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1924).
- Ronald MacDonald, “George MacDonald: A Personal Note” (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1911); reprinted in From a Northern Window: A Personal Reminiscence of George MacDonald by His Son (Eureka, California: Sunrise Books, 1989), pp. 21-79; and in Dale Wayne Slusser, In the Near Loss of Everything: George MacDonald’s Son in America (Hamden, Connecticut: Zossima Press, 2009), pp. 115-147.
- William Raeper, George MacDonald (Herts, England: Lion Publishing, 1987).
- Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker (Nashville, Tennessee: Star Song Publishing, 1993).
- Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, Alister E. McGrath, Ralph C. Wood, Matthew Dickerson, Matt Forster, Michael Ward, Crystal Downing, Colin Duriez, David Downing, Suzanne Bray, Brian Horne, and Edwin Woodruff Tait, “Seven Literary Sages,” Christian History Magazine 113, (2015).
- Kerry Dearborn, Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George Macdonald (Routledge, 2016).
- Joyce McPherson, Spiritual Sight: The Story of George MacDonald (Coppell, Texas: 2023), foreword by Christopher MacDonald.
- Jolyn Canty, Far Above Rubies: The Life of Louisa MacDonald (n.p.: The Works of George MacDonald, 2023).
- Wingfold: Celebrating George MacDonald. This quarterly journal, edited by Barbara Amell, offers much information about MacDonald’s life and relationships.
- North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, published by the George MacDonald Society.