Tuesday 25 July 2017

Chronologically Lewis by Joel Heck: a major new Jack and Warnie Lewis resource

Prof Joel Heck of Concordia University, Texas - our benefactor
 
I was extremely excited to discover what I regard as the single most imprtant new CS Lewis resource since the Collected Letters edition by Walter Hooper: a detailed, birth to death chronology of both Jack and Warnie Lewis by Joel Heck.

It is available free, in an 1146 page PDF file that can be accessed from Professor Heck's web pages:

http://www.joelheck.com/chronologically-lewis.php

I have already made several discoveries among the riches, for example an account of Jack and Warnie's visit to my almae matres Newcastle and Durham to give the Abolition of Man lectures in 1943; and I look forward enormously to the next weeks of exploring this thoroughly.

A big thank you is due to Joel Heck for doing this work, and for making it freely available.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is astonishing - and seems a great Inklings-in-Oxford tool, in general. Who was working on what, when? - one has a good chance of finding out, and quickly!

Many thanks, indeed, to Joel Heck!

David Llewellyn Dodds

Joel Heck said...

You're welcome. I appreciate the kind words.