Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface, Stephen Prickett
Introduction
George MacDonald: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text and Illustrations
At the Back of the North Wind
Appendix A: Good Words for the Young and the Serial Publication of At the Back of the North Wind
- Mark Knight, Introduction: Good Words for the Young
- Cover of Good Words for the Young (1869)
- Norman Macleod, Editor’s Address (1869)
- Cover of Good Words for the Young (1870)
- George MacDonald, Editor’s Greeting (1 December 1870)
- “The Mother’s Prayer” (1869)
- Two Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1 July
1870) - “The Rags”
- “What the Whole Family Said”
- “Up in Heaven” (1870)
- Arthur Hughes, Illustration for Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (1871)
- Arthur Hughes, Illustration for The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
Appendix B: Children’s Literature and the Victorian Consciousness
- Review of At the Back of the North Wind, The Athenaeum (March 1871)
- Mark Twain and George MacDonald
- Letter from Twain to MacDonald (19 September 1882)
- Letter from Twain to W.D. Howells (1899)
- From Poems in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth (1807)
- “My heart leaps up” (written in 1802)
- From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (written in 1802-04)
- George MacDonald, “The Child in the Midst” (1867)
- Cartoon of MacDonald as “Goody Goody” (2 November 1872)
- George Cattermole, Illustration from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
- Hammatt Billings, Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Appendix C: Literary and Cultural Connections
- From Aesop, “The North Wind and the Sun”
- From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863)
- From Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
- Henry Mayhew, “Crossing-Sweepers,” from London Labour and the London Poor (1852)
Appendix D: Victorian Fairy-Tale Debate
- Charles Dickens, “Frauds on the Fairies” (1 October 1853)
- From George Cruikshank, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper (1854)
- John Ruskin, “Fairy Stories” (1868)
- George Cruikshank, Illustration of “Rumple-Stilts-Kin” (1823)
- George Cruikshank, Illustration of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” (1823)
- George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)
Appendix E: Illustrations of At the Back of the North Wind
- Jan Susina, Introduction: “The Brotherhood between George MacDonald and Arthur Hughes”: Hughes’s Illustrations to
MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind - Robert Trexler, Five Early Illustrators of At the Back of the North Wind
Appendix F: Maps and Other Illustrative Images
- Sandford Map of Central London, 1862
- Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 (detail)
- Maps of Hyperborean Region
- Parts of a Horse
- Parts of a Hansom Cab
- Currency in Victorian England
Works Cited
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