id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7152 George MacDonald - Wikipedia .html text/html 6628 778 70 George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. An account cited how the young George suffered lapses in health in his early years and was subject to problems with his lungs such as asthma, bronchitis and even a bout of tuberculosis.[11] This last illness was considered a family disease and two of MacDonald's brothers, his mother, and later three of his own children actually died from the ailment.[12] Even in his adult life, he was constantly travelling in search of purer air for his lungs.[13] George MacDonald's best-known works are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith (1895), all fantasy novels, and fairy tales such as "The Light Princess", "The Golden Key", and "The Wise Woman". His son Greville became a noted medical specialist, a pioneer of the Peasant Arts movement, wrote numerous fairy tales for children, and ensured that new editions of his father's works were published.[37] Another son, Ronald, became a novelist.[38] His daughter Mary was engaged to the artist Edward Robert Hughes until her death in 1878. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7152.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7152.txt