Category Archives: Letters

C.S. Lewis Wasn’t Just Smarter Than Me… Hints on Education from a Remarkable Letter

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

There is some irony in the fact that I’m working hard to get a PhD in C.S. Lewis so that I can teach at a university, when Lewis himself—Professor at Cambridge for nine years and Don at Oxford for thirty—never … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Education, joel heck, Leo Baker, literature, Oxford, phd students, Poetry, writing | 12 Comments

Letters to an Oxonian Lady: C.S. Lewis’ Relationship with Mary Neylan

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

In a recent trip to the Wade Center, a literary archive of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings in Wheaton, IL, I read an original C.S. Lewis letter to a young student while he was an Oxford don. In June of … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Original Research, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged C.S. Lewis, letters, literature, Mary Neylan, Mental Illness, Oxford, Pilgrim's Regress, Ransom Trilogy, wade center, writing | 31 Comments

Lost and Found Writers at the Altars of Hope

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

Stephen King claims in his writing memoir, On Writing, that he used to collect his rejection letters from publishers on a nail in his attic. When the weight of the dozens of rejections became too much for the nail, he … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Lewis Biography, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged C.S. Lewis, letters, literary shrine, literature, On Writing, rejection letters, Spirits in Bondage, Stephen King, writing | 21 Comments

Dorothy Sayers’ Sluckdrib Letter: The First Screwtape Copycat

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

In preparing for a paper on teaching The Screwtape Letters for the C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Colloquium at Taylor University this Spring, I thought I had discovered the first Screwtapian letter written by someone other than C.S. Lewis. A … Continue reading →