GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

Chesterton Short(s)

The Winter 1995 issue of In Review magazine was dedicated to children's author and artist Hilda van Stockum. Stockum is quoted as follows:

When I was nineteen, I went back to Amsterdam to study art, and there, in a library, I found G.K. Chesterton, who has since been my guiding light among mortals. I bought all his books, and felt how the sweeping broom of his intellect was cleaning the attic of my mind. [Book of Catholic Authors, 1943]

According to In Review co-editor Jean Ann Sharpe, Chesterton's "brisk intellect and spiritual acuity came at a crucial time for the young artist raised in an agnostic environment; it fanned to flame the spark of spiritual perception already alight within her."