Gallery

Below is a collection of images of George MacDonald, his family, and his friends. To enlarge an image and learn more, simply click on a photograph. To advance through the gallery in this expanded view, use the arrow keys.

These images were contributed to The Works of George MacDonald by Christopher MacDonald and Dave Hiatt.

George MacDonald

George MacDonald at his writing desk, taken by Lewis Carroll.

An engraving of George MacDonald with his signature, circa 1868.

An engraving for a proposed frontispiece of George MacDonald, circa 1873.

George MacDonald cabinet card, Napoleon Sarony of New York, American tour of 1873.

Carte de Visite of George MacDonald, circa 1875.

George MacDonald. Photograph taken in the 1860s and later colorized.

A newspaper print of a Hughes portrait that used to belong to Greville, circa 1905. Caption reads, “The great Scots novelist, the late Dr. George MacDonald.”

Inscription reads, “House where George MacDonald spent his boyhood, Huntly.”

MacDonald’s Family

James and Phoebe Powell, father and mother of George MacDonald’s wife, Louisa Powell. Captions are handwritten by Irene MacDonald.

Isabella Robertson, George's grandmother. After his mother, Helen, died of tuberculosis when he was 8 years old, Isabella became a caregiver for George and his siblings until their father remarried.

George MacDonald, Sr., taken around the time of his wedding day.

“Mary J. MacDonald dreaming of her father and brother Ronald.” This work by Lewis Carroll was composed from at least three separate photographs.

Irene MacDonald, photographed by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), circa 1863.

Maurice MacDonald (1864-1879), ninth of George and Louisa's eleven children.

Robert Falconer MacDonald

Irene MacDonald

Louisa MacDonald and four daughters at Porto Fino.

George MacDonald and his family.

George MacDonald and family at the Villa Baratta in Porto Fino, 1878.

Lilia MacDonald and her fiancee, Charles Granet de la Rue

The great room at Casa Coraggio. The family moved to this location in 1880.

The dining room at Casa Coraggio. The family moved to this location in 1880.

George, Louisa, Lilia and two friends at Casa Corragio.

A Christmas Tableau at Casa Corragio, 1883.

Lilia Scott MacDonald

The drawing of Louisa by Edward Hughes, done in August 1882.

Peter MacDonald, Greville MacDonald, and Maurice MacDonald (Bernard Powell MacDonald’s son), circa 1938, 1939.

Friends and Contemporaries

Lady Georgina Mount Temple.

Lord Mount Temple (William Francis Cowper-Temple), a friend of the family.

Alfred Tennyson, a British poet and friend of George MacDonald.

Octavia Hill, an English social reformer, was friend to George MacDonald, F.D. Maurice, and John Ruskin.

Edward Robert Hughes, R.W.S.

The original and only known photograph of William Carey Davies, George MacDonald’s secretary, 1890s.

James T Fields was a famous publisher, writer and lecturer who took George under his wing in Boston during his lecture tour of the States in 1872/3.

Miscellaneous Images

Painting by Irene MacDonald, Moonlight over Bordighera.

Caricature of George MacDonald by Frederick Waddy, London, circa 1873.

A newspaper clipping from 1902.

A portrait of George MacDonald by Pastor Gordon Smith: I painted a simple watercolor of this man who has influenced me to paint a sermon regarding the love of God, rather than to write a sermon.