Ronald MacDonald

Ronald MacDonald was born in London on 27 October 1860, the seventh of eleven children and the second of six sons, of novelist George MacDonald and his wife Louisa Powell. Ronald was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1885), after which he went to the United States where he was a schoolmaster at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and at Ravenscroft School in Asheville, North Carolina. He returned to England in 1894, where he became a novelist and dramatist. He published fourteen...See more

Ronald MacDonald was born in London on 27 October 1860, the seventh of eleven children and the second of six sons, of novelist George MacDonald and his wife Louisa Powell. Ronald was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1885), after which he went to the United States where he was a schoolmaster at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and at Ravenscroft School in Asheville, North Carolina. He returned to England in 1894, where he became a novelist and dramatist. He published fourteen novels, two under the name "Oliver Fleming" (written in collaboration with his son Philip MacDonald), and one short fairy tale, The Laughing Elf (1922), his only writing in the manner made famous by his father. Ronald MacDonald died in London on 13 July 1933. See less