Headington, Oxford
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Headington, Oxford
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 1 Aug 2013
This view from outside the Waitrose supermarket in Old High Street, Headington provides a view of the one-time home of Joy "C.S. Lewis". Hers was the house behind the street lamp with the plaque on its front elevation. Joy Davidman (1915–60), later Mrs Gresham, was an American poet and writer from New York State. At the end of a troubled marriage to her first husband, and following her conversion to Christianity, she left the USA in order to come to England with her sons. In 1950, following an introduction by a fellow American writer, Davidman began corresponding with C. S. Lewis and eventually came to London in 1952. On experiencing financial difficulties C.S. Lewis found and rented this house for her and her two young sons. She lived here from 1953-57 until her death-bed marriage to C.S. Lewis, after which she and her sons moved into "The Kilns".
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Image Location
Latitude
51.760659
Longitude
-1.211458