- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Maisie Ward
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This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922.
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- Chapters
- Introduction
- Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Childhood
- School Days, Part 1
- School Days, Part 2
- Art Schools and University College
- The Notebook
- Towards a Career
- Incipit Vita Nova
- To Frances
- A Long Engagement
- Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1
- Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2
- Married Life in London, Part 1
- Married Life in London, Part 2
- Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy
- Orthodoxy
- Bernard Shaw, Part 1
- Bernard Shaw, Part 2
- From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1
- From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2
- A Circle of Friends
- The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1
- The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2
- The Eye Witness
- Marconi, Part 1
- Marconi, Part 2
- The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 1
- The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 2
- The War Years, Part 1
- The War Years, Part 2
- After the Armistice
- Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1
- Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2
- Completion
- The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1
- The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2
- The Distributist League and Distributism
- Silver Wedding, Part 1
- Silver Wedding, Part 2
- Columbus, Part 1
- Columbus, Part 2
- The Soft Answer
- Our Lady's Tumbler
- The Living Voice
- Last Days
- Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton
- Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's
- Appendix C—The Chestertons
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