Chesterton and Children ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Chesterton and Children ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Considering Chesterton’s childlike relationship with children, it seems somehow apt that a new biography of him has been written for children. One of the great and almost secret regrets of G.K. Chesterton and his wife Frances was the sad fact that they were never able to have children. Frances had undergone an operation to help with conception, which had proved unsuccessful, and the couple resigned themselves to a childless marriage. It had not …