When did critic and writer C. S. Lewis marry Joy Davidman?
C. S. Lewis married Joy Davidman in 1956.
She died of cancer in 1960, three years before Lewis’s own death in 1963.
Their story is told in Lewis’s A Grief Observed (1961).
C. S. Lewis married Joy Davidman in 1956.
She died of cancer in 1960, three years before Lewis’s own death in 1963.
Their story is told in Lewis’s A Grief Observed (1961).
Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Cat’s Cradle (1963) invented ice-nine. Ice-nine is a form of water that freezes at 114.4 degrees Fahrenheit. When it is accidentally released into the ocean, it freezes the entire world. Dr. Felix Hoenikker in Cat’s Cradle (1963). Ice-nine is a form of water that freezes at 114.4 degrees Fahrenheit. When it…
The sequel to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is Equality (1897).
At the beginning of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones (1749), it appears his mother is Jenny Jones, servant of Squire Allworthy. By the end of the novel, his true mother is revealed: Bridget, Squire Allworthy’s sister. Henry
Longinus’s critical treatise On the Sublime was not published in Europe until 1554. The first-century essay was then translated into several languages and gained wide prominence, eventually influencing the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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John Greenleaf Whittier describes the bravery of the fictional title character in his poem “Barbara Frietchie” (1863) who said, “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head”. The aged Frietchie displays a Union flag when Confederate troops march by. Stonewall Jackson forbids his troops to harm the old woman.