C. S. Lewis

RP kept up a voluminous correspondence with many writers and artists. More than a thousand of her letters survive. Her correspondence with C. S. Lewis ran from 1946 until 1962, but only his side of...

Her Letters Moral and Entertaining seem written on the model of Elizabeth Singer Rowe 's Friendship in Death. One is from a departed Spirit, to his Friend in this World. Those to Clara...

In December 1949 RP participated in a two-day debate held in C. S. Lewis 's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford , on whether women ought to be parsons.

RP hunted out a copy of this book to present to C. S. Lewis when they first met in July 1946, writing that she thought it, though only grotesque & satirical . . . my...

RP said of the Hawthornden Prize, That brought me out into the daylight.C. S. Lewis sent RPthe most generous praise of this book.

In recent times but well before the renaissance of interest in women writers as such, in his volume on the sixteenth century in the august Oxford History of English Literature, C. S. Lewis pronounced...

During her lifetime RP was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.Arthur Russell

Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue , translated into English under the auspices...

Within Sayers's lifetime she had become a figure of controversy on account of the element of Christian partisanship in her non-fictional works. In The Emperor's Clothes, 1953, Kathleen Nott bracketed Sayers with T. S. Eliot

E. M. Delafield writes that during the 1940s CY retained wide popularity: that the London Library 's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times...

This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious.The Times responded with a front-page article (anonymous, as all...

The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC explained to Colette Bryce , comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis , in which a...

Here KN writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively),

She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy . Christianity was everywhere in the syllabus and...

Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded...