George MacDonald Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller by Michael R. Phillips Appendix I The Works of George MacDonald Michael R. Phillips Categorizing and chronologizing George Mac- the number of separate editions of this material no Donald’s writings is extremely difficult for several doubt exceeded four hundred. reasons. Nearly all his books were released in many different editions by a variety of publish- ers. David Elginbrod, Alec Forbes of Howglen, CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF and Robert Falconer, for instance, were issued in GEORGE MACDONALD’S BOOKS at least twelve editions between 1865 and 1900, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood in fifteen. And 1851 even his more obscure novels were released in Twelve of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis--Private- four or five varieties. In America, where he was ly Printed very popular and widely pirated, texts and titles 1855 were sometimes altered and the lack of copyrights Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem--Long- and scanty records on the part of the publishers man, Brown, Green make any kind of tracing of the books virtually 1857 impossible. Poems--Longman, Brown, Green Secondly, MacDonald had a passion for 1858 polishing and reediting. He constantly was re- Phantastes: a Faerie Romance for Men & Women- working his poems, with the result that every new -Smith, Elder edition of poetry contained newly worded poems 1863 by the same title, but with slight variations from David Elginbrod--Hurst & Blackett ones that had been released earlier. An example is 1864 the book Adela Cathcart, which contained whole The Portent: A Story of the Inner Vision of the different collections of stories from one edition to Highlanders Commonly Called the Second Sight- another. -Smith, Elder He not only reworked his material, title changes were frequent. Thus Orts became A Adela Cathcart--Hurst & Blackett Dish of Orts and was released in the U.S. as The 1865 Imagination and Other Essays. The Gifts of the Alec Forbes of Howglen--Hurst & Blackett Child Christ became Stephen Archer and Other 1867 Tales. And the magazine parable released as A Dealing With the Fairies--Alexander Strahan Double Story became The Wise Woman when first published in book form, only to later be released The Disciple and Other Poems--Alexander Stra- by two other publishers as Princess Rosamond han and The Lost Princess--four titles in all. All the short stories and poems were Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood--Hurst & Black- released in many distinctive formats with different ett contents. The Twelve Spiritual Songs of Novalis were expanded to fifteen (nine new and six from Unspoken Sermons, 1st Series--Alexander Stra- the 1851 edition) and added to other German and han Italian translations to make up Exotics. Later 1868 Rampolli was released, which combined Exotics Robert Falconer--Hurst & Blackett and Diary of an Old Soul. With every successive publication of poetry, changes were made until Guild Court: a London Story--Hurst & Blackett the 1893 release of The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (2 Vol.), which contained his longer The Seaboard Parish--Tinsley Brothers poems Within and Without, The Disciple, and A 1870 Hidden Life, with a complete collection of 435 The Miracles of Our Lord--Strahan & Co. remaining poems of varying length. 1871 When all is listed and analyzed, George At the Back of the North Wind--Strahan & Co. MacDonald produced 53 books (37 fiction and fantasy, 2 distinctive collections of short stories, 3 Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood--Strahan & Co. literary books, 5 volumes of sermons, and 6 dis- 1872 tinctive volumes of poetry), though in his lifetime The Princess and the Goblin--Strahan & Co. 2 George MacDonald: Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller Wilfrid Cumbermede, an Autobiographical Story-- Unspoken Sermons, 2nd Series--Longmans, Hurst & Blackett/Scribner Green 1886 The Vicar’s Daughter--Tinsley Brothers What’s Mine’s Mine--Kegan Paul/Harper 1873 1887 Gutta Percha Willie: the Working Genius--Henry Home Again, a Tale--Kegan Paul/Appleton S. King 1888 1874 The Elect Lady--Kegan Paul/Munro England’s Antiphon--Macmillan 1889 1875 Unspoken Sermons, 3rd Series--Longmans, Green Malcolm--Henry S. King/Lippincott 1890 A Rough Shaking--Blackie & Sons/Routledge The Wise Woman: A Parable--Strahan & Co. 1891 1876 There and Back--Kegan Paul Exotics: A Translation of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis, the Hymn Book of Luther and Other Po- The Flight of the Shadow--Kegan Paul, Appleton ems from the German and Italian--Strahan & Co. A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip St. George and St. Michael--Henry S. King Sidney, now for their more radiance presented without their setting by George MacDonald--El- Thomas Wingfold, Curate--Hurst & Blackett liot Stock 1877 1892 The Marquis of Lossie--Hurst & Blackett/Lippin- The Hope of the Gospel--Ward, Lock, Bowden cott 1893 1879 Heather and Snow--Chatto & Windus/Harper Sir Gibbie--Hurst & Blackett/Lippincott 1895 Lilith--Chatto & Windus/Dodd, Mead Paul Faber, Surgeon--Hurst & Blackett/Lippincott 1897 1880 Salted With Fire--Hurst & Blackett/Dodd Mead A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an 1898 Old Soul--Privately Printed Far Above Rubies--Dodd, Mead 1881 Mary Marston--Sampson Low/Lippincott 1882 A CATEGORIZATION OF Warlock O’ Glenwarlock--Sampson Low/Harper GEORGE MacDONALD’S WORKS Weighed and Wanting--Sampson Low/Harper FULL-LENGTH FICTION The Gifts of the Child Christ, and Other Tales-- Realistic Scottish Novels Sampson Low David Elginbrod (1863) Orts--Sampson Low Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865) Robert Falconer (1868) The Princess & Curdie--Lippincott/Chatto & Malcolm (1875) Windus The Marquis of Lossie (1877) 1883 Sir Gibbie (1879) Donal Grant--Kegan Paul/Harper Warlock O’ Glenwarlock (1882) Donal Grant (1883) A Threefold Cord: Poems by Three Friends--Pri- What’s Mine’s Mine (1886)--no dialect vately Printed The Elect Lady (1888) 1885 Flight of the Shadow (1891)--no dialect The Tragedie of Hamlet--Longmans, Green Heather & Snow (1893) Salted With Fire (1897) 3 Michael R. Phillips Realistic English Novels Gifts of the Child Christ Golden Key Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood (1867) Gray Wolf Guild Court (1868) If I Had a Father The Seaboard Parish (1868) The Light Princess The Vicar’s Daughter (1872) Little Daylight Wilfrid Cumbermede (1872) My Uncle Peter St. George & St. Michael (1876) Papa’s Story Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876) Photogen & Nycteris/Day Boy and Night Girl Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879) Port in a Storm Mary Marston (1881) The Shadows Weighed and Wanting (1882) Snow Fight Home Again (1887) Stephen Archer A Rough Shaking (1890) Uncle Cornelius, His Story There and Back (1891) Wow o’ Rivven Far Above Rubies (1898) A Child’s Holiday Realistic Junior Fiction Adela Cathcart (1864)--different editions of this book contain different collections: The Light Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (1871) Princess/The Shadows/The Giant’s Heart/Wow Gutta Percha Willie (1873) o’ Rivven/Broken Swords/The Cruel Painter/The Castle/Snow Fight/My Uncle Peter/A Child’s Holiday/Birth, Dreaming, Death Imaginative & Symbolic Adult Fiction Dealings With the Fairies (1867): The Light Princess/The Giant’s Heart/The Shadows/Cross Phantastes (1858) Purposes/The Golden Key Adela Cathcart (1864) Works of Fancy & Imagination Vols. 4-10 (1872): The Portent (1864) Phantastes/The Portent/The Light Princess/The Lilith (1895) Giant’s Heart/The Shadows/Cross Purposes/ The Golden Key/Carasoyn/Little Daylight/The Imaginative Junior Fiction Cruel Painter/The Castle/Wow o’ Rivven/Broken Swords/The Gray Wolf/Uncle Cornelius At the Back of the North Wind (1871) The Gifts of Child Christ, and Other Tales (1882): The Princess and the Goblin (1872) Gifts of the Child Christ/History of Photogen and The Wise Woman/The Lost Princess/A Double Nycteris/Butcher’s Bills/Stephen Archer/Port in a Story (1875) Storm/If I Had a Father The Princess and Curdie (1883) POETRY SHORT STORIES Within and Without (1855) (Published in many different editions Poems (1857)--72 in all: A Hidden Life/Gospel & groupings) Women (16 poems)/Misc. Poems (55 poems) The Disciple & Other Poems (1867)--73 in all: A Journey Rejourneyed The Disciple/Scotch Songs & Ballads (10 poems)/ Angels Song Misc. Poems (62 poems) Birth, Dreaming, Death Works of Fancy & Imagination Vols. 1-4 (1872): Broken Swords Within and Without/A Hidden Life/Poems (4 po- Butcher’s Bills ems)/The Disciple/Gospel Women (16 poems)/A Carasoyn Book of Sonnets (7 poems)/Organ Songs (29 po- The Castle ems)/Violin Songs (15 poems)/Songs of the Days Cross Purposes & Nights (8 poems)/A Book of Dreams/Road- The Cruel Painter side Poems (10 poems)/Poems for Children (13 Giant’s Heart poems)/Parables (22 poems)/Ballads (6 poems)/ 4 George MacDonald: Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller Scotch Songs & Ballads (14 poems) The Hope of the Gospel (1892): Salvation from Exotics (1876): German Translations (From Sin/The Remission of Sins/Jesus in the World/ Novalis, Schiller, Goethe, Uhland, Heine, Von Sa- Jesus and His Fellow Townsmen/The Heirs of lis-seewis, Claudius)/From the Dutch of Genestet/ Heaven and Earth/Sorrow the Pledge of Joy/God’s From Unknown German Author/From Petrarch/ Family/The Reward of Obedience/The Yoke of Je- Milton’s Italian Poems/Luther’s Song Book sus/The Salt and the Light of the World/The Right Diary of an Old Soul (1880) Hand and the Left/The Hope of the Universe A Threefold Cord (1883) A Cabinet of Gems (1891) Rampolli (1897): Exotics/Diary of an Old Soul LITERARY BOOKS AND ESSAYS Poetical Works of George MacDonald Vol. 1 (1893): Within and Without/A Hidden Life/A Sto- England’s Antiphon (1874)--a history of the reli- ry of the Seashore/The Disciple/Gospel Women gious poetry of England (16 poems)/A Book of Sonnets (14 poems)/Or- Orts (1882): The Imagination: Its Functions & gan Songs (46 poems)/Violin Songs (30 poems)/ Its Culture/A Sketch of Individual Development/ Songs of the Days & Nights (8 poems)/A Book of St.