About Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th, 1874. Originally, after attending St Paul’s School, he went to Slade to learn the illustrator's art and literature. In 1896, he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic. In 1901, he married Frances Blogg, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life.

Thereafter, he obtained weekly columns in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. For many, he is known as a very fine novelist and the creator of the Father Brown Detective stories, which were much influenced by his own beliefs. A large man – 6’ 4½” and 21st in weight – he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are, such as sending a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but wondering where he should actually be.

But he was prolific in many other areas; he wrote plays, essays, loved to debate, and wrote hundreds of poems. Here we bring you The Victorian Age In Literature. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on June 14th, 1936, and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London.