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)

On May 14, 1914, Dorothy L. Sayers wrote her parents about hearing G. K. Chesterton lecture at Oxford. Miss Sayers was favorably impressed by GKC and pleased to find him not so "dogmatic" as she had assumed him to be from his writings, and much less "fireworky." [James Brabazon, Dorothy L. Sayers, New York, 1981, p. 51]