Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
G. K. Chesterton
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Namesakes === In 1974, [[Ian Boyd (academic)|Ian Boyd]], founded ''[[The Chesterton Review]]'', a scholarly journal devoted to Chesterton and his circle. The journal is published by the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture based in Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Chesterton Review |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/chesterton |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512121454/https://www.pdcnet.org/chesterton |archive-date=12 May 2021 |access-date=12 May 2021 |publisher=Philosophy Documentation Center}}</ref> In 1996, [[Dale Ahlquist]] founded the American Chesterton Society to explore and promote Chesterton's writings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton β Apostolate of Common Sense |url=https://www.chesterton.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226090641/https://www.chesterton.org/ |archive-date=26 December 2019 |access-date=13 November 2019}}</ref> In 2008, a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] high school, [[Chesterton Academy]], opened in the [[Minneapolis]] area. In the same year Scuola Libera Chesterton opened in [[San Benedetto del Tronto]], Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Scuola Libera G. K. Chesterton|url=https://chestertonschoolsnetwork.org/directory/scuola-libera-gk-chesterton|access-date=8 July 2021|website=Chesterton Schools Network|date=16 April 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2012, a crater on the planet [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] was named Chesterton after the author.<ref>{{Citation |title=Chesterton |date=17 September 2012 |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15033?__fsk=-188654396 |work=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218052720/http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15033?__fsk=-188654396 |place=United States |publisher=Geological Survey |access-date=18 September 2012 |archive-date=18 February 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, G. K. Chesterton Academy of Chicago, a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] high school, opened in [[Highland Park, Illinois]].<ref>{{Citation |title=School built around G. K. Chesterton to open in Highland Park |date=19 March 2014 |url=http://highlandpark.suntimes.com/2014/03/19/school-built-around-g-k-chesterton-to-open-in-highland-park/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525233124/http://highlandpark.suntimes.com/2014/03/19/school-built-around-g-k-chesterton-to-open-in-highland-park/ |place=United States Chicago |publisher=highlandpark suntimes |access-date=25 May 2014 |archive-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A fictionalised G. K. Chesterton is the central character in the ''Young Chesterton Chronicles'', a series of [[young adult fiction|young adult]] adventure novels by John McNichol,<ref>{{cite book |last1=McNichol |first1=John |title=The Tripods Attack!: The Young Chesterton Chronicles Book 1 |date=2017 |publisher=Hillside Education |isbn=978-0-9991706-0-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McNichol |first1=John |title=The Emperor of North America: Volume 2 of Young Chesterton Chronicles |date=2021 |publisher=Hillside Education |isbn=978-1-7331383-4-5 |language=en}}</ref> and in the ''G K Chesterton Mystery series'', a series of detective novels by the Australian author [[Kel Richards]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=Kel |url=https://archive.org/details/murderinmummysto00kelr |title=Murder in the Mummy's Tomb: A G. K. Chesterton Mystery |year=2002 |publisher=RiverOak Pub. |isbn=978-1589199637 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Another fictional character named Gil Chesterton is a food and wine critic who works for KACL, the Seattle radio station featured in the American television series ''[[Frasier]]''.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
G. K. Chesterton
(section)
Add topic