All Things Frances Chesterton Biography

I thought I would try to collect here everything I've done so far on the Frances Chesterton biography.

Recording of my talk at the 29th Chesterton Conference. Audio here. DVD here, the title of the talk was "The Woman Who Was Chesterton".

Frances's first book: The Children's Crusade, Sir Cleges, The Christmas Gift, Three Plays for Children by Frances Chesterton.

Frances's second book: Piers Plowman's Pilgrimage: A Morality Play by Frances Chesterton.

I've kept everyone up to date on my book progress at Uncommon Sense: The Podcast of the American Chesterton Society.

As many of you know, the research involved in this biography of this most intriguing lady is daunting due to the fact that much of the work involving Frances has yet to be published. I've been working with The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, which has a wonderful collection of Chesterton letters.

After working with the Wade Center, I'm pleased to announce that I've just been awarded the 2011 Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant for my biography of Frances.

I'm still a bit short of $$ for all the scans I need from the British Library, but I've got an idea in mind to involve everyone interested in this project. Stay tuned.

Frances Chesterton's Second Book

I was able to obtain this book directly from the Library of Congress, through InterLibrary Loan. My libraries are super helpful. I believe there are perhaps two copies of this work in the US, and the other place couldn't find it.

Links to my Frances Chesterton/Homeschool webinar

Here's the link to stream it:
https://homeschoolconnections.webex.com/homeschoolconnections/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=TC&rID=16496602&act=pb&rKey=e8838a87680dca92

Or, to download to your hard drive:
https://homeschoolconnections.webex.com/homeschoolconnections/ldr.php?AT=dw&SP=TC&rID=16496602&act=pf&rKey=a9338940c424d231

Thanks Class!

Thanks to the wonderful people who enrolled in my Homeschool Connections class last night. It was a great time. Here are some links to books I recommended.

The Library Called...

...and I hope, hope, hope it is Frances Chesterton's other book of plays I've been waiting for.

I'll keep you posted.

Three Plays by Frances Chesterton

This is a link to a YouTube video I made where you can see the book.
Here is a podcast where I share one of the stories Frances wrote, called "The Christmas Gift".

Merry Christmas!

Today Shall Be Revealed...

The Library called. Oh Boy!

I discovered that Frances Chesterton actually has TWO books published! There are only 3 copies of one of them available anywhere in the US and one of them is waiting for me at the library when it opens this morning.

Oh Boy!

Q & A about FB2

I was recently interviewed, which you can read here.

The Father Brown Reader II: More Stories from Chesterton