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Gibb, Jocelyn (ed.) Light on C. S. Lewis. 1965
Gibson, Evan K. C. S. Lewis, Spinner of Tales. Washington, DC, 1980
Gilbert, Douglas and Clyde S. Kilby C. S. Lewis: Images of His World.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973
Green, Roger Lancelyn, and Walter Hooper C. 5. Lewis: A Biography. 1974
Gresham, Douglas H. Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C S. Lewis. New York, 1988
Griffin, William Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life. San Francisco, Calif., 1986
Hannay, Margaret Patterson C. S. Lewis. New York, 1981
Holmer, Paul L. C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought. San Francisco, Calif., 1976
Hooper, Walter Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. New York, 1982
Howard, Thomas The Achievement of C. S. Lewis: A Reading of His Fiction. Wheaton, Illinois, 1980
Karkainen, Paul A. Narnia Explored. Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1979
Kilby, Clyde S. The Christian World of C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1964
__, Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Wheaton, Illinois, 1978
Kreeft, Peter C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1979
Lindskoog, Kathryn Ann C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian. Glendale, Calif., 1973
__, The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land: The Theology of C. S. Lewis Expressed in His Fantasies for Children. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973
__, The C. S. Lewis Hoax. Portland, Oregon, 1988
Meilander, Gilbert The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1978
Payne, Leanne Real Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Works of C. S. Lewis. Westchester, Illinois, 1979
Purtill, Richard Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1974
__, C.S. Lewis’s Case for the Christian Faith. 1981
Schakel, Peter J. (ed.) The Longing for a Form: Essays in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent, Ohio, 1977
__, Reading with the Heart: The Way into Narnia. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1979
__, Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of Till We Have Faces. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1979
Schofield, Stephen (ed.) In Search of C. S. Lewis. South Plainfield, New Jersey, 1984
Sibley, Brian Shadowlands: The Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. 1985
Tolkien, J. R. R. (ed. Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. 1981
__, (ed. Christopher Tolkien) The Lost Road and Other Writings. 1987
Vanauken, Sheldon A Severe Mercy. New York, 1977
Walsh, Chad C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Sceptics. New York, 1949
__, The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. New York, 1979
White, William Luther The Image of Man in C. S. Lewis. New York, 1969
4 C. S. LEWIS PERIODICALS
CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society. 1969–
Tbe Chronicle of the Portland C. S. Lewis Society. 1972–
Tbe Lamp–post of the Southern California C. S. Lewis Society. 1974–
The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal (Godalming, Surrey). 1979–
Seven: An Anglo–American Literary Review. 1980–
Inklings–Fahrhuch für Literatur und Asthetic (Ludenscheid, W. Germany). 1984–
Index
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NOTE: Works by C. S. Lewis appear directly under title; works by others under the name of the author
Abolition of Man, The (CSL), 197–200, 202
Ackland, Joss, 306–7
Acton, Harold, 71
Adam the patriarch, 210
Adams, Father Walter, 175; death, 238–9
à Kempis, Thomas: Imitatio Christi, 137
Albert, Prince Consort, 299
Aldwinkle, Stella, 182
Alexander, Samuel: Space, Time and Deity, 107
Allegory of Love, The (CSL), 88, 93, 143–7, 149–50
Andrew, Father, 181
Anscombe, Elizabeth: disputes with CSL, 107, 210–11, 213–14, 218, 220, 225–6, 236
Aquinas, St Thomas, 213
Aristotle, 73
Arlen, Michael, 32–3
Arnold, Matthew, 156; Sohrab and Rustum, 26–7
Askins, Dr John Hawkins, 81–3, 109–11
Aslans, Mary, 82
Askins, Rob, 82
Atlantic Monthly, 278
Attlee, Clement, 215, 227
Auden, W. H., 16, 71, 148, 156
Augustine, St, 156
Ayer, A. J., 86–7, 198–9
Ayres, Sergeant, 56
Ballantyne, R. M., 116
Barfield, Owen: friendship with CSL, 64, 69; beliefs, 80, 83, 87, 108, 125, 137, 149; meets Moores, 81; correspondence with CSL (The Gnat War), 87, 108; admires CSL’s Dymer, 100; and CSL’s spiritual consciousness, 106, 290; teaches CSL to dive, 134; CSL dedicates Allegory of Love to, 146; and CSL’s criticism of Tillyard, 146–7; with CSL on walking holidays, 160; illness, 204; and 1951 Oxford Poetry Chair, 232; CSL praises, 249; and authorship of A Grief Observed, 286; and Walter Hooper, 302; Poetic Diction, 125
Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan, 26–7
Bateson, F. W., 79
Battle of Maldon, The (poem), 81
Bayley, Peter, 193, 269
Baynes, Pauline, 304
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 284
Belfast: present conditions in, x-xi; CSL’s boyhood homes in, xi-xii, 1, 8–10, 15
Benecke, P. V. M., 102
Bennett, J. A. W., 216, 232
Bennett, Joan, 253
Benson, E. F.: The Angel of Pain, 53
Betjeman, John: CSL and, 98–100, 104; religious speculation, 125; CSL satirizes, 134; ‘Original Sin on the Sussex Downs’, 176; Summoned by Bells, 251
Beyond Personality (CSL; broadcast talks), 124, 180
Bide, Rev. Peter, 263
Blake, Leonard, 186, 266, 299
Blake, Maureen (nee Moore; later Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs): and CSL’s relations with mother, 52, 56, 64–6, 68, 251; schooling, 74; career, 92; at Royal College of Music, 115; and Warren Lewis, 121, 153; on Whipsnade outing, 127; at The Kilns, 140–1, 143; marriage, 186; cares for Joy’s children, 265–6; and ownership of The Kilns, 266, 300; at CSL’s funeral, 299
Blake, William, 80, 149
Bloom, Claire, 306–7
Blunden, Edmund, 231–2
Bodley Head, The (publishing house), 155
Boehme, Jacob: De Signatura Rerum, 123
Book of Common Prayer, 242
Bowra, Maurice, 231
Bradbrook, Muriel, 253
Braine, John, 275
Brewer, Derek, 130
Bridges, Robert, 51
Brightman, F. E., 102
Broadcast Talks (CSL), 180
Bryson, John, 89, 105
Buchman, Frank, 176n
Bunyan,John: The Pilgrim’s Progress, 133
Burton, Richard, 193
Butler (Campbell College friend), 57
Butler, Theobald, 74
Butterfield, William, 3
Buxton, John, 207
Calvin, John, 217
Cambridge University: CSL’s Chair at, 245–6, 253; and literary criticism, 287–9
Campbell College, Belfast, 13–14, 25–7
Campbell, Roy, 194–5
Capron, Rev. Robert, 22–6, 28
Carpenter, Harry, Bishop of Oxford, 262, 307
Carpenter, Humphrey, 262
Carritt, E. F., 74, 84
Carroll, Lewis, 46
Cecil, Lord David, 142, 157–8, 207, 232
Celia (Charles Williams’s secretary), 170
Chambers, Sir Edmund, 156–8
Chavasse, Rev. Cl
aude Lionel, 136
Cherbourg school, near Malvern, 27–8, 30
Chesterton, G. K., 55, 108, 133; The Everlasting Man, 108
Christian Behaviour (CSL; broadcast talks), 180
Clark Lectures, Cambridge, 1944, 241
Coggan, Donald, Archbishop of York, 286
Coghill, Nevill: friendship with CSL, 79–81, 103; and CSL’s Dymer, 101; in Tolkien’s Kolbitar group, 105; Christian beliefs, 108; produces Hamlet, 158; in World War II, 169; attends confession, 175; produces Measure for Measure, 192–3; and CSL’s farewell Oxford dinner, 246; and CSL’s love for Joy, 269; and CSL’s osteoporosis, 270; homosexuality, 274
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 87
Collins (publishers), 222
Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage, 174, 185
Conrad, Joseph, 288
Coward, Noël: Cavalcade (film), 160
Cowley Fathers, The see Society of St John the Evangelist
Cowrie, Miss (school matron), 28
Craig, Colonel James, MP, 52, 55
Cranmer, Thomas, 148
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 215, 297
Crowley, Aleister, 148
C. S. Lewis Society, Oxford, 304
Dante Alighieri, 156, 193, 200–1, 254; The Divine Comedy, 200–1
Dark Tower, The (CSL): supposed forgery, xiv
Davidman, Joy see Lewis, Joy
Day-Lewis, Cecil, 231–3
Discarded Image, The (CSL; lectures), 151—3, 162–6
Dodds, Eric R., 63, 74
Dorsert, Lyle W., xiv, 304
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov, ix
Duke Humfrey’s Library, Oxford, 143
Dunbar, Nan, 253–5
Dunbar of Hempriggs, Lady see Blake, Maureen
Durham, 197
Dymer (CSL): writing of, 70–1, 83, 100; qualities, 100—1, 133; publication, 102; 1950 reprint, 110
Dyson, Hugo (i.e. Henry Victor): helps convert CSL to Christianity, xiii, 124–7, 166, 184, 214, 252, 291, 306; on CSL’s love of books, 44; character and background, 124–5; and Havard, 142; attends confession, 175; in World War II, 192; at Charles Williams’s funeral, 204; grave, 207; on CSL’s dispute with Elizabeth Anscombe, 213; antipathy to Tolkien’s writing, 216–17; and CSL’s candidacy for Poetry Chair, 231; on CSL and Mrs Moore, 233; at CSL’s farewell Oxford dinner, 247; and CSL’s marriage, 260, 273; CSL’s demands on, 271
Elgar, Sir Edward, 35
Eliot, T. S.: relations and differences with CSL, xiv, 09, 118, 161, 263, 286–7, 289; modernism, 79; and CSL’s Pilgrim’s Regress, 134; on Charles Williams, 148; on Milton, 173; Christian faith, 182; reads and publishes CSL’s A Grief Observed, 285–6; Leavis approves, 288
Empson, William, 161, 277
Endicott, Lizzie (nurse), 8–10
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (CSL), xvii, 217–18, 241–3
Euripides: Bacchae, 35, 62; Hippofytus, 109, 111
Evans, C. S., 60
Ewart, Hope, 26
Ewart, Lily, 75, 136
Ewart, Sir William and Lady, 13
Experiment in Criticism, An (CSL), 287–9
Faber & Faber (publishers), 285–6
Fairford (Gloucestershire), 204
Farquharson, Arthur Spenser Loat, 74, 89
Farrer, Austin, 239, 245n, 259–60, 262, 272, 281, 295
Farrer, Katherine, 281, 295
Featherstone, Mrs (of Oxford), 64
Fisher, Geoffrey F., Archbishop of Canterbury, 262
Flecker, James Elroy: Hassan, 129
Flewett, June see Freud, Jill
Flora (maid), 215
Four Loves, The (CSL), 269, 272–5
Fox, Rev. Adam, 142, 156–9, 231
Franco, General Francisco, 195
François de Sales, St, 290
Frazer, Sir James: The Golden Bough, 41–2
Freud, Clement, 218, 300
Freud, Jill (née June Flewett): at The Kilns, 186–9, 192–3, 203, 297; leaves for RADA, 203; acting career, 215; marriage, 218; abandons Christianity, 218; and CSL’s children’s stories, 220; gives puppy to CSL, 252; and CSL’s marriage, 271; and Warren Lewis after CSL’s death, 300
Freud, Sigmund, x, 46, 199
Gabbitas & Thring (agency), 16, 27
Galsworthy, John, 60
Gardner, Helen, 194, 209–10, 244–5
Garrod, Heathcote William, 103
Gide, André, 232
Gladstone, William Ewart, 5
Glenmachan House (Ireland), 13
God in the Dark (CSL; posthumous edition of essays), 302
Gordon, George, 79–81, 105
Graham, Billy: Answers to Life’s Problems, xiii
Grahame, Kenneth, 207, 220
Great Divorce, The (CSL), 72, 200–2
Great Malvern, 27–8, 160
Greece: CSL holidays in, 278–80
Green, June Lancelyn, 278–9, 281
Green, Roger Lancelyn, 131, 192, 219, 221, 272, 278–9, 281, 301
Greeves, Arthur: letters from CSL, xv, 38, 43–4, 51, 110, 119, 121, 162, 177, 192, 301; boyhood in Belfast, 18; friendship with CSL, 37–8, 64, 112, 133; religious beliefs, 42, 64, 80, 108, 135, 218; homosexuality, 44, 57–8, 274; and CSL’s sexual thoughts, 44, 49–51, 57, 128–9; and CSL’s father, 57, 67; and end of World War I, 61; meets Moores, 81; and Tolkien, 119; and Warren Lewis, 121; and CSL’s religious faith, 123, 127–8, 135; and natural world, 162; and Charles Williams, 193; and Mrs Moore’s decline, 223; CSL informs of marriage, 261; fondness for Proust, 292; CSL plans to visit, 295; and CSL’s final illness, 296
Gresham, Bill (Joy’s husband), 237–8, 240–1, 249, 255, 266–8, 280
Gresham, David (Joy’s son): accompanies mother to England, 237, 249–50; character, 265–6, 270; custody of, 266–8; schooling, 279; and mother’s cancer, 280; attitude to CSL, 283; portrayed in TV play, 306–7
Gresham, Douglas (Joy’s son): accompanies mother to England, 237, 249–50, 260, 270; with Maureen, 265–6; custody of, 266–8; schooling, 279; and mother’s cancer, 280; attitude to CSL, 283; and mother’s death, 283; plans trip to see Greeves with CSL, 294; at CSL’s funeral, 299; portrayed in TV play, 306–7
Gresham, Joy see Lewis, Joy
Grief Observed, A (CSL; originally published as by ‘N. W. Clark’), xvi, xviii, 282–6, 290–1, 307
Griffin, William: Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life, 176n
Griffiths. Alan (later Dom Bede Griffiths), 108, 130, 137, 235
Guardian, The (journal), 178
Haines, Pamela, 294
Haines, Dr Tony, 293–4
‘Hamilton, Clive’ (i.e. CSL), 60
Hamilton, Hugh, Bishop of Ossory (CSL’s great-great-grandfather), 1
Hamilton, Rev. Thomas (CSL’s maternal grandfather), 1–3, 6, 8
Hardie, Colin, 142, 271
Hardy, Thomas: ‘God’s Education’, 284
Harper, Miss (governess), 16–17
Harwood, Arthur Cecil, 84, 100
Havard, Dr Robert E. (‘Humphrey’; ‘U.Q.’): friendship with CSL, 142–3, 271; in World War II, 169; visits Fairford, 204; and 1951 Poetry Chair, 232; witnesses CSL’s marriage, 260; and Joy’s illness, 261, 293; treats CSL, 293
Hawker, Robert, 66
Head, Father Ronald Edwin, 299
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 211
Heinemann, William, 60
Henry, Major, 304
Henry, Vera, 127, 215
Herbert, George, 78
Hichens, Dr, 82, 111
Hitler, Adolf, 198
Hooper, Walter: and CSL’s The Dark Tower, xiv-xv; collects and edits CSL’s works, xv, 301–3; views on CSL, xvi; helps CSL in illness, 296; cares for Warren Lewis, 300–2; rivalry with Kilby, 303; and Pope John Paul II, 308–9; converts to Catholicism, 309
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 49
Horse and His Boy, The (CSL), 2 20
Hough, Graham, 253
Huddleston, Trevor, 286
Hüge
l, Baron Friedrich von, 238
Hume, David, 88
Hunt, Richard, 174
Huxley, Aldous, 299
Hypocrites Club, Oxford, 71
Ing, Katherine: The Elizabethan Lyric, 249
Inge, William Ralph, Dean of St Paul’s, 123, 137
Inklings (group): and religion, xii-xiii; self-satisfaction, 159–60; name, 159; in wartime, 192, 194, 202; holiday in Fairford, 204; post-war changes, 216, 222; and Joy, 271
Irish Home Rule, 5, 10
Jenkin, A. K. Hamilton, 63
Jerome, St, 156
Jesus Christ, 163–6
John Paul II, Pope, 308–9
Johnson, Samuel, 146, 207, 209
Jones, Emrys, 247
Joyce, James, 78–9, 214
Jung, C. G., 46
Kafka, Franz, 161
Kaufman, Bel, 237, 255, 268–9
Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 78
Kennedy, John F., 297, 299
Kilby, Clyde S., xv, 303
Kilns, The (house): purchase of, 122; life at, 138–41, 215; wartime evacuee children at, 186; Helen Gardner visits, 209; maids, 215–16; inheritance, 266; sold, 266n; CSL spends final illness at, 296–7; Warren lets, 300
King Kong (film), 160
Kirkpatrick, Louise Ashmole, 43–4
Kirkpatrick, William T. (‘The Great Knock’): teaches and advises CSL’s father, 4, 13–14, 19, 33; tutors CSL, 36, 39–44, 62, 70, 105, 146, 171; marriage, 43; advice on CSL’s career, 47, 75; CSL visits on sick leave, 57; CSL’s later visit to, 67; death, 73; belief in virtue, 87; portrayed by CSL, 190; in Surprised by Joy, 251
Knox, Monsignor Ronald, 167–8
Kolbitar (group, Oxford), 105, 117
Labour Party: CSL’s attitude to, 215, 227, 297
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 292
Ladborough, Richard William, 292
Lancaster, Osbert, 232
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 182
Langland, William, 135
Last Battle, The (CSL), 120, 220, 227–9
‘Late Passenger, The’ (CSL; poem), 219
Law, William, 290
Lawlor, John, 130
Lawrence, D. H., 125, 161, 288
Lawrence, T. E., 124
Leavis, F. R., 173, 287–8
Letters (CSL; ed. W. H. Lewis), 300
