{"id":69381,"date":"2018-11-17T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=69381"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:34:18","slug":"c-s-lewis-chronology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/17\/c-s-lewis-chronology\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis Chronology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1898 – Born in Belfast (November 29th)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1905 – Family moves to “Little Lea”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1908 – Mother (Flora Lewis) dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1910 – Attends Campbell College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1911 – Attends Cherbourg House, Malvern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1913 – Enters Malvern College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1914 – Begins tutoring with W.T. Kirkpatrick in Surrey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1917 – Starts at University College, Oxford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1918 Wounded in action<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1919 – Spirits in Bondage: A cycle of lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1923 – Graduated from Oxford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1925 – Hired as a don in English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1926 – Dymer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1929 – Father (Albert Lewis) dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1929 – Becomes a theist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1931 – Becomes a Christian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1933 – The Pilgrim’s Regress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1936 The Allegory of Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1938 – Out of the Silent Planet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939 Rehabilitations and Other Essays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939 The Personal Heresy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1942 – The Screwtape Letters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1942 – A Preface to Paradise Lost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1943 – Perelandra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1945 – That Hideous Strength<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1945 – The Great Divorce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1949 – The Weight of Glory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1951 – Prince Caspian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1952 – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1952 – Meets Joy Davidman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1953 – The Silver Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1954 – The Horse and His Boy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1954 – Hired as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1954 – English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1955 – Surprised By Joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1956 – Marries Joy Davidman in a civil ceremony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957 – Marries Joy Davidman in an Anglican ceremony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1958 – Reflections on the Psalms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1960 – The World’s Last Night and other essays<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1960 – Studies in Words, The Four Loves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1961 – An Experiment in Crticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1961 – A Grief Observed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1963 – Lewis dies at home (November 22nd)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 – Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 – Poems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 – The Discarded Image: An introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 – Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 – On Stories: And other essays on literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967 – Letters to an American Lady<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970 – God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977 – The Dark Tower and Other stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979 – They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1980 – The Weight of Glory (Expanded version)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 – Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 – C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Children<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991 – All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 – Letters of C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1914,5112],"class_list":["post-69381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-chronology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79535,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69381\/revisions\/79535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}