C. S. Lewis

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...

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

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...

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 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...