by A. N. Wilson
Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer (CSL), xvii, 290–1
Lewis, Albert (CSL’s father; ‘the P’daytabird’): in Belfast, xi, 8–9; marriage, 3; character (and ‘wheezes’), 4–7, 18, 94, 283; on Irish situation, 5; religious beliefs, 6, 24, 41–2; and sons’ education, 12–15, 19, 25, 31, 33; builds and occupies Little Lea, 15; appearance, 18; and Kirkpatrick, 19, 33, 39–41, 47; and wife’s death, 20–1; musical interests, 30, 32; changing relations with CSL, 31–2,41, 52, 54, 58–9, 67–9, 75, 89–90, 95, 114, 283; drinking, 52, 57; and CSL’s wartime absence in France, 54–5; and CSL’s war wound, 56; on CSL’s published poems, 60; and CSL’s relations with Mrs Moore, 66–7; supports CSL’s career, 75, 90; and CSL’s Magdalen fellowship, 89; ephemeral writings, 94; illness and death, 1 to-13, 114, 119; estate, 119–10; memorial window, 136; and CSL’s Narnia stories, 228–9; in CSL’s Surprised by Joy, 252; on CSL and women, 256
Lewis, Clive Staples (Jack; Jacks): and religious orthodoxy, x, xiii; Belfast boyhood, xi-xii, 1, 8–12; and mother’s death, xi, 19–20, 22, 47, 59, 210, 214, 224, 282–3; brashness and argumentative manner, xii, 18, 98, 118, 129–30; portrait, xiv; feuds over, xv-xvii; supposed virginity and temperance, xvi; self-absorption, xvii; born, 1, 8; relations with brother Warren, 1, 8, 11–12, 18, 139, 225; on eternal suffering, 2; early reading, 11 -12; schooling, 12–13, 16, 21–36; thick lips, 18; illnesses, 27; loss of boyhood faith, 28–9, 42; ‘Northemness’, 29–30, 35, 37, 119, 220; changing relations with father, 31, 41, 52, 54, 58–9, 67–9, 75, 95, 114, 283; tutored by and lives with Kirkpatrick, 36, 39–44; friendship with Greeves, 37–8; confirmed, 41–2; on sexual love, 44; reading and literary criticism and taste, 44–5, 161; influenced by George MacDonald, 45–7; prospective career, 47–8; poetry, 47–8, 59–60, 71–2, 09–102, 133, 232, 290; admitted to Oxford, 48–50; sexual fantasies, 49–50, 57–8, 128–9; relations with Mrs Moore, 53–4, 58–9, 64–9, 72, 74–5, 81, 83, 92, 106, 114, 121, 187–8, 224–5, 233–4, 251, 297; serves in France in World War I, 54–6; wounded and returned to England, 56–7; reticence on sexual experience, 58; returns to Oxford after war, 61–4; Oxford prize, 70, 73–4; classics degree, 73–4; career, 74–5; takes English degree, 76–8, 84; resistance to modernism, 79, 161; early university teaching, 85; philosophical beliefs and speculations, 86–8; scholarship, 88; English fellowship at Magdalen, 89,91–2, 95–7; thanks father for support, 90; effect of Mrs Moore on work, 92–3, 95; earnings, 95; as university tutor, 95–100, 116,129–30; friendship with and encouragement of Tolkien, 105, 116–19, 159, 196–7; reconverted to religious belief, 105–10, 122–4, 211, 291; fear of neurosis, 110–11; and father’s illness and death, 110–13, 114, 119; literary ambitions, 119; buys and occupies house with Mrs Moore and Warren (The Kilns), 121–2; acceptance of Christian faith, 122–9, 133, 137–8, 166, 211; on Christian and sexual morality, 128–9; gives termly dinners (‘English binges’), 131–2, 206; literary output and achievements, 132–4; and Northern Ireland Protestantism (‘ulsterior motive’), 136–8; and parents’ memorial window, 136; clubbability and love of male company, 141–3; influenza, 142; readability, 143, 146; lecturing, 144, 197; sense of personality, 146–7, 290; influenced by Charles Williams, 150, 170, 193; on medieval world-picture, 151–3; campaigns over 1938 Oxford Poetry Chair, 156–9; and Inklings, 159, 217, 222; walking holidays, 159–60, 174; growing crustiness, 162; as Christian apologist, 162–7, 180–1, 211, 218, 257; in World War II, 169–70, 192, 202; on Blessed Sacrament, 174–5; practises confession, 175–6, 239; broadcasts, 179–81; arouses jealousy among academic colleagues, 181, 192, 208, 246; wartime talks to RAF, 179; as President of Socraoc Club, 182; on Communism and Fascism, 195; on world system of values (Tao), 198–200, 258; supports June Flewett (Freud) at RADA, 203; as parodist, 208; not appointed to Merton Chair, 208–9; defends Oxford syllabus, 209; dispute with Elizabeth Anscombe, 210–11, 213–14, 218, 225, 236; and physical universe, 211; St Andrews DD, 215, 218; and post-war conditions, 216, 227; cooling relations with Tolkien, 216–18, 273, 294; reputation as children’s author, 120; collapse, 222–3; and Mrs Moore’s decline and death, 223–5; and Narnia stories, 226–30, 234; loses 1951 Poetry Chair contest, 231–3; repels personal and intimate conversation, 234–5; correspondents, 235–6; meets Joy, 236–41; reading at table, 243; appointed to Cambridge Chair, 245–6, 253; relations with Joy, 248–51, 255–7, 269, 272–4, 276; dualism, 257–8; view on Christian marriage, 258–9; marriage to Joy, 260–4; and Joy’s cancer, 261–3, 270, 278–81; letters to Bill Gresham on custody of children, 267–8; osteoporosis and Substitution, 269—71; on homosexuality, 274–5; on friendship with women, 275; on language, 276–7; Greek holiday, 278–80; and Joy’s death, 281–5; and unknown God, 283–5; on literary criticism, 287–9; Romantic egotism, 291; attitude to own death, 293, 295; urinary trouble, 293; heart attack and final illness, 295–7; death, 298–9; funeral, 299; posthumous interest in and studies on, 302–8; apparition, 305–6; TV play about, 307
Lewis, Florence (née Hamilton; CSL’s mother; ‘Flora’): death, xi, 19–20, 47, 59, 210, 214, 224, 283; childhood, 1–2; witnesses miracle in Rome, 2, 214; university degree, 3; marriage, 3, 7; family home, 8; and CSL’s childhood, 11; and sons’ education, 12–16; memorial window, 136; and CSL’s Narnia stories, 228
Lewis, Joe (CSL’s uncle), 21
Lewis, Joy (ne’e Davidman; then Mrs Bill Gresham; CSL’s wife): meets CSL, 236–41; relations with CSL, 248, 249–51, 255–7, 272–4, 276; divorce from Gresham, 255; marriage to CSL, 260–5, 269; cancer, 261–3, 265, 268, 278–81; and ownership of The Kilns, 266; and CSL’s friends, 271–3; Greek holiday, 278–80; death, 281; portrayed in TV play, 306–7; Smoke on the Mountain, 249
Lewis, Richard (CSL’s grandfather), 3–4, 8, 10, 17; death, 19, 21
Lewis, Warren Hamilton (CSL’s brother; ‘Warnie’): Belfast childhood, xi, 8, 11–12; life and comradeship with CSL, 1,8, 11–12, 18, 139, 225; dislikes grandfather’s writings, 2; born, 8; compiles Lewis Papers (family), 11, 26, 81, 113, 139, 300; schooling, 12–13, 15, 17, 19, 21–3, 25, 28, 32–3; and mother’s death, 20; relations with father, 32, 69; service in World War I, 38, 41; and Kirkpatrick, 39, 41; home leave, 52–3; and CSL’s relations with Mrs Moore, 67–8, 72, 92, 115, 121, 141, 2 34, 251; and father’s death, 112–13, 114–15, 119–20; isolation and nostalgia in Shanghai, 114–16; drinking and alcoholism, 114–15, 138–9, 203, 215, 223, 225, 270, 299–301; resignation from Army, 114–15, 120–1, 138; and disposal of toys, 120; offered home with Mrs Moore, 121–2; shares house with CSL and Mrs Moore (The Kilns), 121–2, 138, 203; and Mrs Moore’s hostility to CSL’s faith, 128; attends Flecker’s Hassan, 129; and CSL’s bawdry, 131; and parents’ memorial window, 136; religious practice, 138; relations with Mrs Moore, 139–40, 153, 224–5; walking holidays with CSL, 160, 174; emotional immaturity, 161, 229; service in World War II, 169; wartime diaries, 192; Fairford holiday, 204; and post-war rationing, 215; and CSL’s collapse, 223; in mental home, 223; on Mrs Moore’s death, 224; and 1951 Poetry Chair, 233; and Joy, 239–40, 255, 257, 271, 300; writings, 252–3; on foreign travel, 253, 279; and CSL’s marriage, 260–1, 263; and Joy’s cancer, 262–3, 280; on Greshams at The Kilns, 270–1; death, 270, 303; and Joy’s death, 281; and CSL’s final illness and death, 295–8; misses CSL’s funeral, 299; life after CSL’s death, 299–300; edits CSL’s letters, 300; and Walter Hooper, 301–3; portrayed in TV film, 307; The Splendid Century, 253; Sunset of the Splendid Century, 253
Lightfoot, Rev. Robert Henry, 181
Lindskoog, Kathryn (formerly Stillwell): meets CSL, 236, 239; The C. S. Lewis Hoax, xiv-xv, 236n
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (CSL), ix-x, 2, 220–1, 228
Littera Scripta (CSL; juvenile play), 17
Little Lea (house), 15
Loki Bound (CSL; juvenile work), 35, 38
Lucretius, 171–2
Lydgate, John, 145
Macaulay, Rose, 275; Letters to a Friend, 291
MacDonald, George: Christian beliefs, 137, 156;
in CSL’s Great Divorce, 201;
Phantasies, 45–7, 55, 70, 77, 123, 135, 2 10, 214, 221, 229
McFarlane, Bruce, 105, 297
McGonagall, William, 254
MacNeice, Louis, 99, 118
McNeill, J. A., 26
Magician’s Nephew, The (CSL), 226
Malory, Sir Thomas, 221
Malvern College, 25, 28, 31–6
Margaret, Princess, 159, 262
Marion E. Wade Center see Wheaton College, Illinois
Marryat, Captain Frederick, 116, 161, 289
Martindale, Father Cyril Charlie, SJ, 70
Martlets (Oxford society), 62
Mere Christianity (CSL), xi, xiii, 137, 180, 211, 215, 246, 308
Merton Chair of English Literature (Oxford), 208
Miller, Mollie and Len, 281, 299
Milton, John, 152, 156, 170–3, 184, 286–7; Comus, 170, 184
Miracles (CSL), 107, 211–13, 215, 278
Monteith, Charles, 130, 285
Moore, Courtenay Edward (‘the Beast’; Janie’s husband), 53, 67, 256; death, 225
Moore, Edward Francis Courtenay (Paddy), 51, 52–3, 56, 247; death, 59
Moore, Janie (née Aslans; ‘Minto’): relations with CSL, xvi, 52–4, 58–9, 66–8, 72, 8i, 83, 92, 106, 121, 128–9, 141, 143, 224–5, 233–4, 251, 283, 297; visits wounded CSL, 56; and son’s death, 59; in Oxford, 64–6, 68; domestic activities and demands, 64–5, 75–6, 83, 128–9, 188, 203; nature, 72; and CSL’s career, 75; brother’s illness, 81–2; and CSL’s academic career, 88; ill-health, 92; effect on CSL’s work, 93, 95; and CSL’s Dymer, 100; and CSL’s religious conversion, 108, 110, 127–8; loneliness, 114–15; invites Warren to share home, 121–2; buys and occupies house with CSL and Warren (The Kilns), 121–2, 297; on Whipsnade outing, 127; relations with Warren, 139–41, 153, 224–5; reading, 141, 203; entertaining, 143; death of dog, 153; takes in wartime evacuees, 186–8; health decline and death, 187–8, 203, 209, 215, 222–4; and June Flewett’s departure for RADA, 203; and maids, 215; and religion, 218; and CSL’s collapse, 224; burns CSL’s letters, 251
Moore, Maureen see Blake, Maureen
Moral Rearmament (formerly Oxford Group Movement), 176n
More, Thomas, 217
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 125, 148
Morris, William, 47, 135
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 219
Murray, Gilbert, 62
Namia stories (CSL), ix, 214, 210–21, 225–30
Nesbit, Edith, 190, 220–1,226
Newbolt, Sir Henry, 63
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal: Apologia, 106, 110
Nicholson, Bill: Sbadamlands (TV play), 306–8
Norse myth, 29–30, 35–7, 125–6
Novalis (i.e. F. L. von Hardenberg), 46
Onions, C. T., 102, 105
‘Open Letter to Dr Tillyard’ (CSL), 146
Ovid, 221
Out of the Silent Planet (CSL), 154–5, 174, 183
Oxford (University): CSL admitted as undergraduate (University College), 48–52; CSL’s post-war return to, 61–4; celibate tradition, 65; English studies at, 76–7, 97–8, 103–4, 209; CSL first teaches at, 85; CSL holds fellowship at (Magdalen College), 89, 91–2; teaching and tutorial system, 95–7; college life, 102–3; Poetry Chair (1938), 156–8; (1951), 231–2; in World War II, 169, 192; post-war conditions at, 206; English Faculty at, 208–9; CSL leaves for Cambridge, 245–6
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The (ed. W. H. Auden), 148
Oxford Group Movement see Moral Rearmament
Oxford University Press, 169–70, 241; see also Williams, Charles
Papas (illustrator), 308
Parsons, Robert, 244
Paul, St, 233
Paxford, Fred, 139–41, 186, 215, 297, 299; CSL portrays, 226
Pelger, Mr (dentist), 269
Penelope (Lawson), Sister: friendship and correspondence with CSL, 174–6, 185, 216, 234, 241, 252, 257, 270, 275, 295
Perelandra (CSL), 175, 183–4, 189
Phillips, J. B.: Ring of Truth, 305–6
Pierce, Renée (later Gresham), 236–7, 241, 249, 268
Pilgrim’s Regress, Tir(CSL), 9, 133–5, 174
Pitter, Ruth, 275
Plato, x, 84–7, 137, 149, 210–11, 305
Pocock, Guy, 102
Potter, Beatrix, 135, 220; Squirrel Nutkin, 12, 77
Pound, Ezra, 79
Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’, A (CSL), 171–3, 210, 287
Problem of Pain, The (CSL), 162, 166–7, 179, 215, 235, 278
Proust, Marcel, 161, 292
Punch (magazine), 167, 219, 285
Queenie (maid), 215
Quennell, Peter, 65
Quiz, Roland: Adventures of Tom Pippin, 161
Rackham, Arthur, 29
Raine, Kathleen, 219
Reflections on the Psalms (CSL), 274
Reveille (magazine), 60
Richards, I. A., 103, 173, 277, 287
Riddell Lectures (University of Durham), 197
Ros, Amanda McKittrick, 168, 206, 254
Ross, Alec, 296
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Confessions, 50
Rowse, A. L., 243–4, 245n
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 308
Ruskin, John, 66
Russell (Belfast clergyman), 9
Russell. Bertrand, 125, 211; Worship of a Free Man, 86–7
Sade, Marquis de, 57
Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest, 85
St Andrews University: awards DD to CSL, 215, 218
St Luke’s Episcopal Church, Monrovia, California, 305
St Mark’s Church, Dundela, 136
Sampson, Ashley, 162, 179
Saurat, Denis, 173
Sayer, George, 213, 239, 256, 299–300
Sayer, Moira, 256, 300
Sayers, Dorothy L., 103, 194, 275; Man Born to he King, 182, 194
Scott, Maude, 17
Screwtape Letters, The (CSL), 92, 177–9, 181, 202, 246
Shadowlands (TV play) see Nicholson, Bill
Shaw, George Bernard, 199
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 50–1
Sibley, Brian, 306
Silver Chair, The (CSL), 140, 226–7
Simpson, Percy, 76, 84, 103–4
Sinn Fein, 5
Sirwell, Edith, 134
Smith, David Nicholl, 208
Smith, Harry Wakelyn, 35
Smith, J. A., 102
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film), 160–1
Society of St John the Evangelist (The Cowley Fathers), 175, 239
Society of the Divine Compassion, 181–2
Socratic Club (Oxford), 182, 198, 213–14, 220, 228
Spenser, Edmund, 156, 217, 221; The Fairie Queene, 46–7, 145, 221
Spirits in Bondage (by ‘Clive Hamilton’, i.e. CSL), 59–60, 133
Stalin, Josef V., 198
Starkie, Enid, 231–2
Statius, 254
Steiner, Rudolph, 87, 137
Strick (Oxford student), 80–1
Studies in Words (CSL), 276–7
Substitution (doctrine), 194, 269, 309
Summers, Rev. Montague, 71
Surprised by Joy (CSL): on grandfather, 3; on father, 4, 21, 31, 106, 283; on Wynyard school and Capron, 24, 26; on CSL’s boyhood loss of faith, 28; on Northernness, 29; on Kirkpatrick, 39; reticence on sex, 58, 106, 252; on college life, 102; on religious development, 106–7, 122–3, 127, 252; writing of, 251–2, 282
Tao, 198–200, 258
That Hideous Strength (CSL), 71, 127, 189–91, 197
They Stand Together (CSL’s letters to Greeves), xv, 38, 301
Till, Anthony Stedman, 281
Till We Have Faces (CSL), 252, 261
Tillyard, E. M. W., 146
Tolkien, Christopher: in France, xvii; annotations on father’s mythology, 117; in wartime RAF, 192; encourages father’s writing, 196; and Inklings, 216; on CSL’s refusal to gossip, 2 34; at CSL’s farewell Oxford dinner, 246; and father’s cooling re
lations with CSL, 273, 294; at CSL’s funeral, 299
Tolkien, J. R. R.: on CSL’s praying in Letters to Malcolm, xvii, 289–90; influence as Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 103–4; Catholic beliefs, 108, 125–6, 137, 195; friendship with CSL, 116–19, 159, 195; creative powers and activities, 116–17, 195; temperament, 118–19; marriage difficulties, 119, 159; scholarly editing, 124; mythology, 125–7, 166, 218, 306; and CSL’s spiritual development and religious conversion, 124–7, 135—6, 184, 214, 252, 291, 306; on immortality, 133; on CSL’s Pilgrim’s Regress, 142; writing, 153; and CSL’s Out of the Silent Planet, 154; and 1938 Oxford Poetry Chair, 156, 159; in Inklings, 159; in World War II, 169, 192: attitude to Charles Williams, 170, 193; on CSL’s wartime talks, 179; Screwtape dedicated to, 181; and CSL’s That Hideous Strength, 190–1; on Dorothy L. Sayers, 194; on CSL and Franco, 195; Fairford holiday, 204–5; appointed Merton Professor, 208; syllabus attacked, 209; cooling relations with CSL, 216—18,273, 294; dislikes Narnia stories, 222, 225, 228; dislikes CSL’s English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 241; and CSL’s Cambridge Chair, 245; at CSL’s farewell Oxford dinner, 246; on CSL’s idea of marriage, 258–9; and CSL’s marriage, 260, 271–2; and idea of Substitution, 269; and CSL’s misunderstanding of etymology, 276; at CSL’s funeral, 299; Kilby visits, 303; The Adventures of Tom Boinhadil, 294; The Hobbit, 153, 196; Lay of Leithian (unfinished), 117–19; The Lord of the Rings, 195–7, 202, 216, 222; The Lost Road (fragment), 154; ‘Mythopoeia’, 126; The Silmarillion, 155, 196, 222, 225–6, 303
Townsend, Group-Captain Peter, 259
Tynan, Kenneth, 130, 206–7
Tyndale, William, 217
Underhill, Evelyn, 238
Unwin, Stanley, 155
Usk, Thomas, 145
Victoria, Queen, 299
Volento, Maria, 31
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (CSL), 220
Wagner, Richard, 30, 32, 35, 77, 83, 135, 220
Wain, John, 130, 193, 216
Waller, David, 307
Walpole, Hugh, 155
Wardale, Edith Elizabeth, 77, 82