Abstract
Discusses a neglected and uncharacteristic children's story, The Wise Woman, by the Victorian Scottish novelist and fantasy writer George MacDonald, setting it in the context of MacDonald's own development and of other Victorian children's moral fantasy, concluding that "The Wise Woman is not simply a story of the attempted correction of two children, but a vision of good and evil in the mind and in God’s creation.... In its moral and spiritual complexity, and its picture of divine grace all about us if we will open our hearts, The Wise Woman has a profundity and a lucidity that gives it a place among MacDonald’s best creations."
Recommended Citation
Manlove, Colin
(2016)
"Imagining Evil: George MacDonald's The Wise Woman: A Parable (1875),"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 42:
Iss.
2, 201–217.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol42/iss2/7
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