Out of my Bone. The Letters of Joy Davidman. Edited by Don W. King
Collections of letters always offer an interesting insight into the life and mind of the writer, even though such collections are necessarily one-sided in several respects. The letter-writer is in control of his or her own comments, and we do not often have the other side of the epistolary conversat...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Literature and theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-116 |
| Review of: | Out of my bone (Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2009) (Murdoch, Brian)
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| Summary: | Collections of letters always offer an interesting insight into the life and mind of the writer, even though such collections are necessarily one-sided in several respects. The letter-writer is in control of his or her own comments, and we do not often have the other side of the epistolary conversation in any case. Nor can our already one-sided picture ever be complete: editorial selection, but far more usually the simple non-survival of correspondence also has an effect. The case of the letters of Joy Davidman (or Joy Gresham, or Joy Lewis) is a curious one, too, for other reasons. She is known principally, possibly even exclusively, as the wife from 1956 to her death in 1960, of C. S. Lewis, and of course she figures prominently in the myriad publications presenting the life of Lewis. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr043 |