{"id":6469,"date":"2005-12-11T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/the-real-lucy.html"},"modified":"2005-12-11T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T08:51:21","slug":"the-real-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/the-real-lucy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Telegraph article on the woman who, as a girl, was the inspiration for the character of Lucy in LWW:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jack and Minto, as he called Mrs Moore, had lived together in Oxford since 1920. There were no children in the house until they started taking in evacuees at the start of the war. Lewis once wrote: "I never appreciated children till the war brought them to me."<\/p>\n

What, I ask, were her first impressions of him? "Oh, I loved him. Loved him, of course I did. I was in the kitchen helping Mrs Moore with the hen food when I first met him. I turned round and knew this was something momentous. Jack was naturally very gregarious, he liked exchanging ideas. He enjoyed the pub, and walking.<\/p>\n

"I had read the Screwtape Letters and, being a good little Catholic at that time, his famous book Christian Behaviour, but I didn’t know then that Jack Lewis was CS Lewis. I had no idea. Two weeks later I saw his books on the shelf, then I made the connection. I realised that this man I was staying with was my literary hero.<\/p>\n

"I didn’t know where to put myself. I couldn’t look at him or speak to him for about a week because I knew from reading his books that he understood human nature horribly well and I just thought, ‘He will know all my faults, all my nasty little foibles’. I felt completely exposed. I got over it, of course." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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