Joy Davidman, CS Lewis’ wife

***Alcuin*** · 09-01-2015, 02:07 AM

I found this article on Joy Davidman, CS Lewis’ wife. It is written by her biographer, Abigail Santamaria, who is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the same publisher who handles Tolkien’s work in the US.

I did not know she was a poet. All I knew about her was that Tolkien disapproved of their marriage, and that it seemingly deepened the divide between Lewis and Tolkien.

Davidman died before Lewis, who wrote A Grief Observed in meditation upon mourning her. (Lewis subsequently died the same day as John Kennedy.) Her son, Douglas Gresham, is still very much alive.

09-01-2015, 02:07 AM	#1
*Alcuin* Salt Miner Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: gone to Far Harad Posts: 987	Joy Davidman, CS Lewis’ wife I found this article on Joy Davidman, CS Lewis’ wife. It is written by her biographer, Abigail Santamaria, who is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the same publisher who handles Tolkien’s work in the US. I did not know she was a poet. All I knew about her was that Tolkien disapproved of their marriage, and that it seemingly deepened the divide between Lewis and Tolkien. Davidman died before Lewis, who wrote A Grief Observed in meditation upon mourning her. (Lewis subsequently died the same day as John Kennedy.) Her son, Douglas Gresham, is still very much alive.