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See also: born at Huntly, See also: Aberdeenshire
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His See also: father, a See also: farmer, was one of the Macdonalds of See also: Glencoe, and a See also: direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the See also: massacre
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See also: Macdonald's youth was passed in his native See also: town, under the immediate influence of the Congregational See also: Church, and in' an atmosphere strongly impregnated with Calvinism
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He took his degree at
See also: Aberdeen University, and migrated thence to See also: London, studying at Highbury See also: College for the Congregational See also: ministry
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In 185o he was appointed pastor of Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel, and, after resigning, his cure there, was engaged in ministerial See also: work in Manchester
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His See also: health, however, was unequal to the strain, and after a See also: short sojourn in Algiers he settled in London and adopted the profession of literature
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In 1856 he published his first See also: book, Within and Without, a dramatic poem; following it in 1857 with a See also: volume of Poems, and in 1858 by the delightful " faerie See also: romance " Phantastes
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His first conspicuous success was achieved in 1862 with See also: David Elginbrod, the forerunner of a number of popular novels, which include Alec See also: Forbes of Howglen (1865), See also: Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1866), Robert Falconer (1868), See also: Malcolm (1875), The See also: Marquis of Lossie (1877), and Donal See also: Grant (1883)
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He was for a
See also: time editor of See also: Good Words for the See also: Young, and lectured successfully in See also: America in 1872-1873
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He wrote admirable stories for the young, and published some volumes of sermons
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In 1877 he was given a See also: civil See also: list pension
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He died on the 18th of See also: September 1905
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Both as preacher and as lecturer on See also: literary topics See also: George Macdonald's sincerity and moral See also: enthusiasm exercised See also: great
influence upon thoughtful minds
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His verse is homely and direct, and marked by religious fervour and simplicity
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As. a portrayer of Scottish peasant-See also: life in fiction he was the precursor of a large school, which has benefited by his example, and surpassed its See also: original See also: leader in popularity
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The religious See also: tone of his novels is relieved by tolerance and a broad spirit of See also: humour, and the simpler emotions of humble life are sympathetically treated
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