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Lewis's own mother had died when he was a child, while his father was distant, demanding, and eccentric. Speculation regarding their relationship resurfaced with the 1990 publication of A. N. Wilson's biography of Lewis. Wilson (who never met Lewis) attempted to make a case for their having been lovers for a time.
Its main site is in the town of South Shields. The college offers part-time and full-time courses for young students and adults. It was formed in 1984 by the merger of Hebburn Technical College and the Marine and Technical College, the latter founded in 1861 by a trust created by Dr Thomas Winterbottom, a former surgeon-general in Sierra Leone.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. S. Lewis in 1955. The work describes Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his conversion to Christianity in 1931, but does not go beyond that date. [1] The title comes from William Wordsworth's poem "Surprised by Joy".
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis is a 2021 British biographical drama film written and directed by Norman Stone, based on the 2016 stage play, C.S. Lewis on Stage: The Most Reluctant Convert, by Max McLean [2] (which itself was based on Lewis' 1955 memoir Surprised by Joy). [1]
He joined the staff of Malvern College in 1945 after having been a captain in the British Army Intelligence Corps on account of his fluent German. Sayer became Head of English in 1949. Lewis and Sayer became close friends to the extent that Lewis sought Sayer's advice when considering marrying Joy Gresham. On Lewis's death, Sayer was made a ...
The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-890-0.. David Graham (ed.), We Remember C. S. Lewis. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0-8054-2299-4; Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography. Fully revised & expanded edition ...
James Como (born 1946), professor emeritus of rhetoric and public communication, joined the faculty at York College of the City University of New York (), in Jamaica, Queens in 1968, where he founded the Speech Communication discipline (writing its curriculum and coordinating it for forty years), and was also chairman and Professor in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts.
Kirkpatrick was born to an agricultural family in 1848 at Boardmills, County Down.He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast in 1865-1868. At first following an ambition to be called into the Presbyterian ministry, Kirkpatrick followed up his college studies with three years of theological training at Assembly's College, Belfast, the standard place of instruction for ordination into this ...