Jan 8, 2024 · Lewis first met Janie King Moore as a very young man training for war, together with her son, Paddy. The two future soldiers promised they would look after one another’s single parents if one of them died in combat.

Jan 3, 2023 · After the war, Lewis (known as Jack to his family and friends) formed a household of sorts, moving in with Paddy’s sister, Maureen, and Paddy’s mother, Janie, a woman who was estranged and separated from her husband.

Nov 17, 2018 · One of the most peculiar backstories of writer and theologian C.S. Lewis is the unusual 30 year motherly relationship he had with Mrs. Janie Moore. When C.S. Lewis served in World War I, he fought alongside Paddy Moore. Lewis returned wounded and …

Jun 10, 2017 · Janie King Askins Moore was the mother of Paddy Moore, one of Lewis’ friends from World War I. Lewis and Mrs. Moore knew each other for over 30 years and they spent much of that time living together.

Mar 1, 2020 · This article gives a summary of the life of Janie King Moore--both strengths and weaknesses--and her relationship with C. S. Lewis, a man who kept his promise to Janie's son Paddy by...

Apr 14, 2024 · Moore became like a mother to Lewis, as Lewis’s own mother had died when Lewis was young. Mrs. Moore and C S Lewis and his brother Warnie bought a house together in Oxford in 1930, named The Kilns.

Not every male is a Petruchio and can “tame” his conjoint. But while not a marriage, the mysterious partnership between the great C. S. Lewis and Janie King Moore, which lasted half of Lewis’s life, bears some profound similarities.

Jul 3, 2014 · C.S. Lewis and Mrs. Moore. Moore was the mother of one of his school friends, who passed away while they were both deployed in World War I. After Lewis came back, he lived with Moore and her daughter for thirty years, maintaining a …

In 1951 Janie King Moore (Mrs. Moore or 'Minto') died at the age of 78. Minto was the mother of C.S. Lewis's friend from the 1st World War, Paddy Moore. She and her daughter Maureen came under Lewis's care after Paddy's death in that conflict.

Dec 15, 2021 · Some nine years ago I wrote a post, in which I speculated on what might be the truth behind the greatest mystery of CS Lewis's life, and a subject on which he maintained (apparently) absolute secrecy: the nature and basis of his …