Into Other Worlds by Roger Lancelyn Green

When Lewis started writing the Narnia books in the late 1940s, Lancelyn Green suggested that they should be called The Chronicles of Narnia. Lancelyn Green remained close to Lewis until the latter's death in 1963, and holidayed in Greece with Lewis and his wife Joy Gresham just before her death from cancer in 1960. As Andrew Lang Lecturer at the University of St Andrews from 1968 to 1969, he delivered the 1968 Andrew Lang lecture.

He was deputy librarian at Merton College from 1945 to 1950, then William Noble Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1950 to 1952. As an undergraduate, he performed in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's Shakespeare dramas produced by Nevill Coghill, also a member of the Inklings. Lewis at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained a B.Litt. The landed gentry Lancelyn Green family can be traced back to 1093, with the marriage of Randle Greene (sic) and Elizabeth, daughter of William Lancelyn, taking place in the reign of Elizabeth I. Roger Lancelyn Green was born in 1918 in Norwich, England, to Major Gilbert Arthur Lancelyn Green (1887–1947), of the Royal Artillery, and Helena Mary Phyllis, daughter of Lt-Col Charles William Henry Sealy, of Hambledon House, Hampshire. Lewis, by encouraging him to publish The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He had a positive influence on his friend, C.S. He was an Oxford academic who formed part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with C. Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer. Scirard Lancelyn Green, Priscilla Lancelyn Green (Cilla), Richard Lancelyn Green King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Tales of the Greek Heroes

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Into Other Worlds by Roger Lancelyn Green