C. S. Lewis

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...