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Lewis, C S ___ 1898-1963 ___ British
___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, with the first names Clive and Staples, but he is always known
as C S Lewis. His mother died when he was only ten. He studied at Cherbourg
School, Malvern, and University College, Oxford. His studies were interrupted
while he served in the army during the latter stages of the First World
War (during which he was wounded in the Battle of Arras), but thereafter
he returned to Oxford and gained several degrees. He stayed on at University
College as a tutor, and, in 1925, was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College,
Oxford. In 1930, Lewis, his brother and Janie King Moore (the mother of
a friend killed in the war) jointly purchased a house called The Kilns.
In 1931, he became a committed Christian. By 1933, Lewis and a group of
literary friends, dubbed the 'Inklings', were meeting regularly. Lewis's
first major work, 'An Allegory of Love: Study in Medieval Tradition', was
published in 1936 (later, it won a Gollancz Memorial Prize). 'The Screwtape
Letters' followed, in 1942, published as installments in a magazine. This
was one of many Christian works he would write. The first of the Narnia
Chronicles, for which C S Lewis is probably most famous, was published in
1950, and the last in 1956. In 1954, Lewis was elected Chair of Medieval
and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. In 1956, he married
Joy Davidman in order to prevent her deportation. Although she was ill with
cancer and expected to die quickly, she survived until 1960. Three years
later, Lewis himself died, on the same day as President Kennedy and Aldous
Huxley.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1922-1927 ___ domestic literary
self social nature
WEB TEXT LINKS
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about and extracts
about
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lot about
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Oxford
University: Bodleian Library ___
possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
All My Road Before Me: The Diary
of C S Lewis 1922-1927
October 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |