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Lucy Barfield (2 November 1935 – 3 May 2003) was the godchild of C. S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is dedicated to Lucy, who also lent her name to the book's heroine, Lucy Pevensie.
In spite (or perhaps because) of her debilitating condition, Lucy served as a muse and inspiration to her father, Owen Barfield, representing the Eternal-Feminine, and Wordsworth’s Romantic ideal of a young English girl, in his myth-allegory, The Rose on the Ash-Heap.
Lucy Barfield (2 November 1935 – 3 May 2003) was the godchild of C. S. Lewis, whom he based the fictional Lucy Pevensie after. The proof is in the front of the book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in the letter to Lucy.
The Lucy of the Narnia stories is a spiritual guide: she is the first to discover the secret of the Wardrobe and leads the other Pevensie children into Narnia. Once the others are there, she is elected to be their leader in that strange and
2 nov 2019 · Lucy Barfield, goddaughter of C.S. Lewis, was born on this day in 1935. Readers of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will recognize her name from the book’s opening dedication: My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.
Barfield was an important intellectual influence on Lewis. Lewis wrote his 1949 book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first Narnia chronicle, for his friend's daughter Lucy Barfield and dedicated it to her. He also dedicated The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to Barfield's adopted son Geoffrey in 1952.
1 nov 2021 · Most Narnia fans know at least a little about Lucy Barfield, C.S. Lewis’ goddaughter and the Lucy that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is dedicated to. However, she was not the only Barfield to have a Narnia book dedicated to her.
