Tag Archives: unpublished manuscript

To C.S. Lewis Readers and Researchers: A Call for Literary Links

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Dear friends, I have been asked to contribute a list of C.S. Lewis manuscripts that have been published in the last decade for an upcoming book. This invitation came out of an earlier blog, “Lost-but-found Works of C.S. Lewis.” Since then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Beowulf, Bodleian Library, books, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, manuscript history, Marion E. Wade Center, Narnia, Old English, The Beatles, The Screwtape Letters, unpublished manuscript, Walter Hooper | 15 Comments

Photographic Plates of C.S. Lewis’ Manuscripts and Letters

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

A reader suggested I add to my collection of previously unpublished C.S. Lewis manuscripts (“The Lost-But-Found Works of C.S. Lewis“) by providing a list of manuscripts that show up in photographic plates in books and journals. I know that most of … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Original Research | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, manuscript history, manuscripts, Marion E. Wade Center, Narnia, unpublished manuscript | 42 Comments

The Lost-But-Found Works of C.S. Lewis

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Once, I had a couple of hours in London before I had to catch a train up to Chester. I only know London through books and movie; no one will be surprised that Sherlock and Charles Dickens do not make … Continue reading →

An Unpublished Foreword to The Great Divorce

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis’ haunting vision of the afterlife, The Great Divorce, began its publication run 70 years ago today. I was once pressed by Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins to name what I thought was Lewis’ best fiction. Lewis himself preferred Perelandra, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Original Research | Tagged Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, Camus, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Sartre, The Great Divorce, The Outsider, The Screwtape Letters, To the Lighthouse, unpublished manuscript, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner | 34 Comments

A Guide to Doing C.S. Lewis Research at the Bodleian: From One Who Started Badly

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I wrote here of the hectic chaos of arriving at the Bodleian. It was a combination of my unforeseen lack of preparation, and the fact that the Bodleian is under renovation. My hope is to provide a little detail about … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Reflections | Tagged academic, Bodleian Library, C.S. Lewis, manuscripts, marion, Oxford, research, travel, unpublished manuscript | 30 Comments

My First Hour at the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I arrive early to the Bodleian library in Oxford, very nervous and quite intimidated. The attached quadrant has named each of its doorways in Latin: Schola Grammaticae et Historiae and Schola Naturalis Philosophiae. I have to go to the Clarendon … Continue reading →