C.S. Lewis Chronology
We’re currently going through “Surprised By Joy” at the moment in our book club and I wanted to assemble a workable chronology for the events of C.S. Lewis’ life and the years in which he published…
1898 – Born in Belfast (November 29th)
1905 – Family moves to “Little Lea”
1908 – Mother (Flora Lewis) dies
1910 – Attends Campbell College
1911 – Attends Cherbourg House, Malvern
1913 – Enters Malvern College
1914 – Begins tutoring with W.T. Kirkpatrick in Surrey
1917 – Starts at University College, Oxford
1918 Wounded in action
1919 – Spirits in Bondage: A cycle of lyrics
1923 – Graduated from Oxford University
1925 – Hired as a don in English
1926 – Dymer
1929 – Father (Albert Lewis) dies
1929 – Becomes a theist
1931 – Becomes a Christian
1933 – The Pilgrim’s Regress
1936 The Allegory of Love
1938 – Out of the Silent Planet
1939 Rehabilitations and Other Essays
1939 The Personal Heresy
1942 – The Screwtape Letters
1942 – A Preface to Paradise Lost
1943 – Perelandra
1945 – That Hideous Strength
1945 – The Great Divorce
1949 – The Weight of Glory
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1951 – Prince Caspian
1952 – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
1952 – Meets Joy Davidman
1953 – The Silver Chair
1954 – The Horse and His Boy
1954 – Hired as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University
1954 – English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama
1955 – Surprised By Joy
1956 – Marries Joy Davidman in a civil ceremony
1957 – Marries Joy Davidman in an Anglican ceremony
1958 – Reflections on the Psalms
1960 – The World’s Last Night and other essays
1960 – Studies in Words, The Four Loves
1961 – An Experiment in Crticism
1961 – A Grief Observed
1963 – Lewis dies at home (November 22nd)
1964 – Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
1964 – Poems
1964 – The Discarded Image: An introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
1966 – Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
1966 – On Stories: And other essays on literature
1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
1967 – Letters to an American Lady
1970 – God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
1977 – The Dark Tower and Other stories
1979 – They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves
1980 – The Weight of Glory (Expanded version)
1985 – Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis
1985 – C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Children
1991 – All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927
1994 – Letters of C.S. Lewis