Glossary
The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.
There are currently 8 terms in this directory beginning with the letter G.
G. K. Chesterton Archives
Important collection of documents related to Chesterton located in the University of Notre Dame archives (Indiana, USA).
G. K. Chesterton Collection
Collection of documents and personal objects initially kept by Mr Aidan Mackey at the G. K. Chesterton Study Centre (Bedford); it was subsequently transferred to The Oxford Oratory; it is now found at the headquarters of Notre Dame University in London (London Global Gateway, 1-4 Suffolk Street, Westminster, London).
G. K. Chesterton Papers
The most valuable collection of documents related to Chesterton; it belongs to the British Library Manuscript Collections; the references are: Dates of Creation: 1877-1988; Language of Material: English, French, Spanish; Physical Description: 299 volumes (556 parts).
G. K.’s Weekly
Outlying publication distinct from the mainstream press of the age; Gilbert was its editor until his death; some of its contributors were E. C. Bentley, Alfred Noyes, Ezra Pound and George Bernard Shaw, amongst others; George Orwell also wrote in it at the beginning of his career; from the start it advocated the philosophy of distributism, and it had a close relationship with The Distributist League; it ran from 1925 to 1936.
General Election, The
Chesterton worked with the Liberal Party on three electoral campaigns; in 1902, in support of Charles Masterman; in 1906, helping Hilaire Belloc and Masterman, who became MPs; and in 1910, backing the Liberal candidate for Beaconsfield.
General strike of 1926 in the UK
The general strike was called by the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress in defence of the preservation of workers’ purchasing power and to demand decent working conditions; it began on 4 May and lasted for nine days, until 13 May; although did not achieve its goals, the scope of the strike and its repercussion in the media turned it into the paradigm of a new age where the correlation of forces would be settled by new political perspectives and methods.
George, The
Pub located at 213 Strand (Temple, London), near the corner with Essex Street; it was frequented by Chesterton, Belloc and Cecil for its proximity to the offices of The New Witness and, subsequently, G. K.‘s Weekly.
Gill, Eric (1882-1940)
English sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker; he was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement; a friend of Chesterton’s, he contributed to The New Witness, writing about art; he was one of the founding members of the distributist worker’s community of Ditchling (Sussex).