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Title: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Author: Maisie Ward

Release Date: June 28, 2006 [eBook #18707]
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Language: English

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E-text prepared by David McClamrock

Transcriber's note

This electronic edition is intended to contain the complete,
unaltered text of the first published edition of _Gilbert
Keith Chesterton_ by Maisie Ward (New York: Sheed & Ward,
1943), with the following exceptions:

The index, and a few other references to page numbers that do
not exist in this edition, have been omitted.

Italics are represented by underscores at the beginning and
end, _like this_.

Footnotes* have been placed directly below the paragraph
referring to them and enclosed in brackets.

[* Like this.]

Any other deviations from the text of the first edition may be
regarded as defects and attributed to the transcriber.

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

by

MAISIE WARD

CONTENTS

Introduction: Chiefly Concerning Sources

CHAPTER

I Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton
II Childhood
III School Days
IV Art Schools and University College
V The Notebook
VI Towards a Career
VII Incipit Vita Nova
VIII To Frances
IX A Long Engagement
X Who is G.K.C.?
XI Married Life in London
XII Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy
XIII Orthodoxy
XIV Bernard Shaw
XV From Battersea to Beaconsfield
XVI A Circle of Friends
XVII The Disillusioned Liberal
XVIII The Eye Witness
XIX Marconi
XX The Eve of the War (1911-1915)
XXI The War Years
XXII After the Armistice
XXIII Rome via Jerusalem
XXIV Completion
XXV The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930)
XXVI The Distributist League and Distributism
XXVII Silver Wedding
XXVIII Columbus
XXIX The Soft Answer
XXX Our Lady's Tumbler
XXXI The Living Voice
XXXII Last Days

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