C. S. Lewis (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland to parents of the professional middle class in 1898. His father, Albert Lewis, was a successful and well-to-do solicitor who nonetheless always felt threatened by poverty. Lewis’s mother, Florence Hamilton, was well educated, having a degree in mathematics and logic, and she had talent in the humanities as well. She tutored Lewis in both French and Latin before he was seven. Such early exposure to languages and learning was complemented by the atmosphere at Little Lea, the family house. The place was...
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