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