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.

Nerwen · 09-02-2015, 01:26 PM

Very interesting. I have been interested in Joy Davidman since I saw "Shadowlands," then read A Grief Observed.

Susie

Attalus · 09-03-2015, 12:13 PM

I have heard before of her conversion story. Odd, indeed, that the bombs had such an effect. But the Lord moves in mysterious ways.

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.

09-02-2015, 01:26 PM	#2
Nerwen Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2015 Location: A nice studio in the Pelóri Posts: 164	Very interesting. I have been interested in Joy Davidman since I saw "Shadowlands," then read A Grief Observed. Susie __________________ “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.” - JRRT. "On Faerie-Stories"

09-03-2015, 12:13 PM	#3
Attalus Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the Bay of Belfalas Posts: 1,125	I have heard before of her conversion story. Odd, indeed, that the bombs had such an effect. But the Lord moves in mysterious ways. __________________ "What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond conjecture." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial.