[42][43] A cinema film version was released in 1993, with Anthony Hopkins as Jack (C. S. Lewis) and Debra Winger (in an Academy Award-nominated performance) as Joy Davidman. At Lewis' death in 1963, his estate went to his brother Major Warren Hamilton Lewis. Douglas Gresham acknowledged in a 15 November 2005 interview on NPR that he and his brother are estranged, although in a 4 December 2005 interview he did say that they are in email contact. Lewis influenced her work and conversion, and became her second husband after her permanent relocation to England in 1956. Mr. Gresham was born in Hereford. [20][21], Confessing to be a "complete Anglomaniac", Davidman returned to England with her sons in November 1953. Douglas Gresham acknowledged in an interview on November 15th, 2005, on NPR that he and his brother are estranged, although in another interview on December 4th, 2005, he did say they are in email contact. [5][9] Bill Gresham had become disillusioned with the Communist Party while volunteering in Spain during the Spanish Civil War to fight fascism[14] and influenced Davidman to leave the party after the birth of their sons. Though his mother converted to Christianity, much of his family is of Jewish descent. Well worth the trip; it was really wonderful to see some of the things they had, and the reading room was great. "[33], The relationship between Davidman and C. S. Lewis had developed to the point that they sought a Christian marriage. Davidman intended to try to save the marriage, but she agreed to a divorce after a violent encounter with Gresham, who had resumed drinking. As a boy, Gresham lived at "The Kilns," the Oxfordshire home Lewis shared with his brother Warnie, and then Davidman. [35] The marriage did not win wide approval among Lewis's social circle, and some of his friends and colleagues avoided the new couple. "[32] Davidman underwent several operations and radiation treatment for the cancer. The son of Joy Davidman, Douglas watched his mother and “Jack” fall in love and marry. Lewis' literary estates, and is one of the producers of The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise. The couple were separated in 1954, and Joy moved to England with her two sons. Lewis’s stepson, Doug Gresham, gives a very personal reflection on the man he knew as ‘Jack’ I never knew ‘C.S. It was also performed in London as an award-winning stage play in 1989–90. PHOTOS FROM LUNA GRIÑO-INOCIAN. She was provided with a good education, piano lessons and family vacation trips. Lewis. Reflected in a single mind) [38][39], Shadowlands is a dramatised version of Davidman's life with C. S. Lewis by William Nicholson which has been filmed twice. He … C.S. (Lewis had adopted the boys when he married, and The Horse and His Boy is dedicated to them both.) Gresham was the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman. The couple became estranged, even though they continued to live together. Neil was born in Portland, Oregon on July 20, 1935 to Douglas and Faye Horton. [46], sfn error: no target: CITEREFLionel1998 (, "Don King (ed. [4] In 2020, Gresham revealed that his brother David had died several years earlier in a Swiss mental hospital and that his uncle had diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia as a young man.[6]. In October 1956, Davidman was walking across her kitchen when she tripped over the telephone wire and fell to the floor, thereby breaking her left upper leg. Gresham has written an autobiography titled Lenten Lands, which chronicles his life from birth to the age of 28 in 1973. While an atheist and after becoming a member of the American Communist Party, she met and married her first husband and father of her two sons, William Lindsay Gresham, in 1942. [22] Cynthia Haven speculates that the activities of HUAC might have been a factor in her decision to emigrate and not return, given her political affiliations in the past. Fifty years after his death, C.S. There is no character derived from Douglas' brother David in the film or in the stage play on which the film was based, although both Douglas and David … Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. In 1948, they became members of the Pleasant Plains Presbyterian Church. Douglas and Merrie Gresham. [5][9][10] In 1936, after several of Davidman's poems were published in Poetry, editor Harriet Monroe asked her to work for the magazine as reader and editor. Lewis, speaks at Erskine. Lewis made an effort to find kosher food for David. I was an atheist and the daughter of an atheist". Douglas Gresham. Through their religious studies, the couple, in particular, began to read and be influenced by the books of C.S. Read more. The relationship that developed between Davidman and Lewis has been featured in a television BBC film, a stage play, and a theatrical film named Shadowlands. ! Davidman at first studied Judaism, but decided to study all religions and concluded that "the Redeemer who had made himself known, whose personality I would have recognized among ten thousand—He was Jesus." The BBC production won BAFTA awards for best play and best actress in 1986. Born Jewish and raised atheist, Joy embraced first communism and then Christianity. Though Davidman was deeply in love with Lewis, there was no reciprocation on his side. After many years in Tasmania, Australia, he now lives in County Carlow, Ireland. She was born in East Peoria on December 12, 1929 to Crofton and Mary Lee (Douglas) Gresham. For her book of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938 and the Russell Loines Award for Poetry in 1939. Joy was the only woman whom he had met... who had a brain which matched his own in suppleness, in width of interest, and in analytical grasp, and above all in humour and a sense of fun. Lewis ultimately comes to a place of peace and gratitude for having received and experienced the gift of a true love. [3], After finishing high school at Evander Childs High School at fourteen years old,[7] she read books at home until she entered Hunter College in the Bronx at the age of fifteen, earning a BA degree at nineteen. [4] Douglas Gresham is a Christian, as were Lewis and his mother,[5] while David returned to the Orthodox Judaism of their mother's ancestors while still a child in Lewis's home. [5], The marriage was marred by difficulties that included financial problems, as well as her husband's alcoholism and infidelities. He is one of the two stepsons of C. S. Lewis. At the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, she was diagnosed with incurable cancer, with bone metastases from breast carcinoma. Douglas Howard Gresham (born November 10, 1945)[1] is an American British stage and voice-over actor, biographer, film producer, and executive record producer. He attended Rockwood Grade School and Gresham Union High School. [8] In 1935, she received a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in three semesters, while also teaching at Roosevelt High School. [44], C. S. Lewis wrote an epitaph originally on the death of Charles Williams; he adapted it to place on his wife's grave. Although much of her work during this period reflected her politics as a member of the American Communist Party, this volume of poetry was much more than implied by the title, and contained forty-five poems written in traditional and free verse that were related to serious topics of the time such as the Spanish Civil War, the inequalities of class structure and male-female relationship issues. Lewis agreed to enter into a civil marriage contract with her so that she could continue to live in the UK, telling a friend that "the marriage was a pure matter of friendship and expediency". In 1985, a television version was made by the BBC One, starring Joss Ackland as Lewis and Claire Bloom as Davidman. In lenten lands, hereafter may Young Douglas was just eight years old—and already an enormous Narnia fan —when his mother, Joy Davidman, Christian convert who moved to England from the United States, married C.S. He wept with his stepfather when Joy died of cancer, and led the mourners behind the casket when husband followed wife to the graveyard. Lewis vividly. Her parents, Joseph Davidman and Jeanette Spivack (married 1909), arrived in America in the late 19th century. The writer's older brother … Douglas Gresham: My spiritual journey was sort of a strange one I guess in a way. In the film, Gresham is played by the American actor Joseph Mazzello. Sentence of death has been passed on Joy, and the end is only a matter of time. [4] She had an experience that she described as: "for the first time my pride was forced to admit that I was not, after all, 'the master of my fate'... All my defenses – all the walls of arrogance and cocksureness and self-love behind which I had hid from God – went down momentarily – and God came in. Gresham came on as executive producer of recording artist Meg Sutherland's debut album in 2014, successfully signing her to Sprig Music in March with producer Christopher Hopper. By Jonathon Van Maren Douglas Gresham remembers the day he first met C.S. [9][37], As a widower, Lewis wrote A Grief Observed which he published under the pseudonym of N. W. Clerk, describing his feelings and paying tribute to his wife. When Douglas Gresham was eight years old, his mother, Joy Davidman, introduced him and his brother David to the man who would eventually become their stepfather: C. S. Lewis, known to his friends and family as “Jack.” Gresham chronicled this remarkable relationship in Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman & C. S. Lewis(Macmillan, 1988). [45], Here the whole world (stars, water, air, [10], For her collection of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938. ), Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman", "Books: 'Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, "Shadowlands by William Nicholson Study Guide", "Theater: For C. S. Lewis, Does Love Conquer All? Gresham's mother had become friends with C. S. Lewis through correspondence, and the friendship blossomed, eventually leading to marriage in 1956. The couple went on a belated honeymoon to Wales and then by air to Ireland. Gresham has written an autobiography titled Lenten Lands, which chronicles his life from birth to the age of 28 in 1973. Douglas Gresham remembers well the day that JFK was shot. [10], She was employed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939 for a six-month stay in Hollywood writing movie scripts. Lewis paid the school fees and found Davidman and her sons a house in Oxford close to The Kilns. You would be surprised (or perhaps you would not?) His mother's writings had featured the Jews in an unsympathetic manner, particularly one " shohet " (ritual slaughterer). In the book, he recounts his wavering faith due to the overwhelming grief which he suffered after Davidman's death, and his struggle to regain that faith. Her acclaimed first novel, Anya was published in 1940. It was at this time that Lewis recognised that he had fallen in love with her, realising how despondent he would feel to lose her. The civil marriage took place at the register office, 42 St Giles', Oxford, on 23 April 1956. Lewis’ stepsons David and Douglas Gresham.Douglas joined us from his home in Malta to talk about the book, his relationship with the author, and The Logos’s Theatre’s upcoming stage adaptation.Listen below! Lewis developed a heart condition two years later and went into a coma, from which he recovered, but he died a year later—three years after his wife. In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Douglas Gresham found his way. So, yes, I recommend this book to all who love Lewis and his literary work!! She wrote at least four, but they were not used and she returned to New York City to work for The New Masses where she wrote a controversial movie column, reviewing Hollywood movies in a manner described as "merciless in her criticisms." ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joy_Davidman&oldid=997918293#Life_with_William_Lindsay_Gresham, American expatriates in the United Kingdom, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, Converts to Anglicanism from atheism or agnosticism, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Bide, Peter (2015). Gresham's mother died of cancer in 1960, and Lewis continued to raise Douglas and his elder brother David. Douglas Howard Gresham is an American British stage and voice-over actor, biographer, film producer, and executive record producer. Prior to this he owned four farms in Tasmania, Australia, with his wife Merrie and their four children.[8]. Warren Lewis wrote: "For Jack the attraction was at first undoubtedly intellectual. Brimfield – Sylvia “Rose” Wenger, 90, of Brimfield, passed away on November 4, 2020. It had very little to do with my relationship with Jack in some ways and huge amounts in other ways. Here his stepson Douglas Gresham remembers a hero. He wrote to a friend: "new beauty and new tragedy have entered my life. Douglas Gresham and his wife, Merrie, lived at Rathvinden House in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, before moving to their house in Malta in 2008. She helped Lewis with his writing, organised his financial records and wardrobe, and had the house renovated and redecorated. A fictionalized young Douglas Gresham is a character in the 1993 film Shadowlands, in part derived from Lenten Lands. Douglas Gresham and his older brother, David, arrived in England in 1953 when their mother left America and a ruined marriage. Douglas Gresham is a Christian like Lewis and his mother, while David Gresham turned to his mother's ancestral faith, becoming Orthodox Jewish in his beliefs. After his parents' divorce in 1954, he relocated to England with his mother and elder brother. We are in the middle of a chapter-by-chapter commentary on The Horse and His Boy, which is dedicated to C.S. After several lunch meetings and walks accompanying Davidman and his brother, Warren Lewis wrote in his diary that "a rapid friendship" had developed between his younger brother and Davidman, whom he described as "a Christian convert of Jewish race, medium height, good figure, horn rimmed specs, quite extraordinarily uninhibited." [17], When Gresham received a large sum for the movie rights to Nightmare Alley, the family moved to an old mansion with acreage in the New York countryside, where Davidman began to write her second novel, Weeping Bay and Gresham also started his second novel, Limbo Tower. In March 1957, Warren Lewis wrote in his diary: "One of the most painful days of my life. Douglas Gresham acknowledged in a 15 November 2005 interview on NPR that he and his brother are estranged,[3] although in a 4 December 2005 interview he did say that they are in email contact. He went into the Army between 1954-1961. "[6] A sickly child, suffering from a crooked spine, scarlet fever and anaemia throughout her school years, and attending classes with much older classmates, she later referred to herself at this time as being "bookish, over-precocious and arrogant". They have five children: three sons, James, Timothy, and Dominick, and two daughters, Lucinda, and Melodie. [4][5] At an early age, she read George MacDonald's children's books and his adult fantasy book, Phantastes. Arrangements are by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home of Hereford. ... (Jack's brother Major Warren H Lewis) and … About Douglas Gresham in brief. None of the devout, however, have the sort of perspective on Narnia that Douglas Gresham does. She planned to finish her book on the Ten Commandments that she had been working on, and which showed influences of Lewis's style of apologetics. She joined the American Communist Party in 1938. Douglas Gresham is the last person living who knew C. S. Lewis well. American-British actor, biographer and film producer, "Press Release: Narnia Comes To Watertown", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Gresham&oldid=997918690, British people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, Articles with dead external links from February 2016, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Actor, voice-over actor, biographer, film producer, executive record producer, This page was last edited on 2 January 2021, at 21:53. It sold 3,000 copies, double that of US sales. “Jack helped my brother through all sorts of difficulties in education and so forth,” Douglas told me. to know how much of a strange sort of happiness and even gaiety there is between us. Perhaps more. She was the author of several books, including two novels. He now walks freely and fully in the godly heritage he received, living his life to the glory of God and in the service of others. They had two sons, David Lindsay Gresham (born 27 March 1944) and Douglas Howard Gresham (born 10 November 1945). “When my brother decided to become Jewish rather than Christian—he’d already been through Islam and tried Buddhism—Jack went out of his way to get special pots and pans for him so he could cook his own kosher food and get kosher food from the Jewish shop in the middle of the … In doing so, he has created a powerful legacy to pass on to his own children and grandchildren -- as each one embarks on his or her journey of faith. For most of her life she was a homemaker. Lewis made an effort to find kosher food for him. It was … [2], Davidman was a child prodigy, who scored above 150 on IQ testing,[3] with exceptional critical, analytical and musical skills. [36], Upon leaving the hospital a week later, she was taken to The Kilns and soon enjoyed a remission from the cancer. He wept with his stepfather when Joy died of cancer, and led the mourners behind the casket when husband followed wife to the graveyard. [40] Nicholson's work drew in part from Douglas Gresham's book Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and CS Lewis. [41] The play was transferred successfully to Broadway in 1990–91 with Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Alexander starring, and was also revived in London in 2007. Davidman resigned her teaching position to work full-time in writing and editing. Gresham hosted Focus on the Family's radio adaptations of his stepfather's most famous works, and his interest in media versions thereof was later shown again when he was named co-producer for the series of theatrical films adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia; he also made a cameo in the first installment as a radio newscaster, the second as a "Telmarine crier" and the third as a slaver. [18] Gresham had at first similar Christian convictions as Joy, but soon rejected them; he continued to have extramarital affairs and developed an interest in tarot cards and the I Ching. Gresham is Davidmans son, he meets as a child C. S. Lewis and his brother Warnie at the Kilns. McALLEN - Ronnie Gresham, 41, a former longtime Hereford resident, died Thursday, March 25, 1999. This was not straightforward in the Church of England at the time, because she was divorced, but a friend and Anglican priest, Reverend Peter Bide,[34] performed the ceremony at Davidman's hospital bed on 21 March 1957. During the marriage, Gresham wrote his most famous work Nightmare Alley in 1946, while Davidman did freelance work and cared for the house and children. While Douglas Gresham is, like Lewis and his mother, a Christian, David returned to the Orthodox Judaism of their mother's family while still a child in Lewis's home. [2] His mother was of Jewish descent. In October 1959, a check-up revealed that the cancer had returned, and as of March 1960, was not responding to radiation therapy, as before. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Rest Lawn Memorial Park at Hereford. While Douglas is still a devout Christian, his brother David returned to Judaism after the death of their mother. "[4] In 1939, she won the Russell Loines Award for Poetry for this same book of poems. Both experimented with L. Ron Hubbard's theories of Dianetics and "audited" each other and friends. Lewis’, the name on the spines of the books, for the living, breathing man who filled my young life with his presence was ‘Jack’. Wed 3 Oct 2007 19.04 EDT. Lewis dedicated “The Horse and His Boy” to the then 9-year-old Douglas. The Major in turn passed the estate to Douglas and David ten years later. Neil of Gresham, Oregon passed away on Friday May 8th 2020. [15] Davidman wrote that her husband had telephoned her, one day in spring 1946, telling her that he was having a nervous breakdown, and did not know when he would return home. The son of Joy Davidman, Douglas watched his mother and “Jack” fall in love and marry. Davidman grew up in the Bronx with her younger brother, Howard, and with both parents employed, even during the Great Depression. "[4], She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. The book narrates his experiences during this time.... Later on, Davidman married Lewis, and soon after that became seriously ill and died. Prior to this he owned four farms in Tasmania, Australia, with his wife Merrie and their four children. – C. S. Lewis[26], Lewis began to ask for Davidman's opinion and criticism when he was writing and she served as the inspiration for Orual, the central character in Till We Have Faces (1956). [5], During the Great Depression, several incidents, including witnessing the suicide of a hungry orphan jumping off a roof at Hunter College, are said to have caused her to question the fairness of capitalism and the American economic system. In the film, Gresham is played by the American actor Joseph Mazzello. Joy later married author C.S. Davidman published her best known work, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, in 1954 with a preface by C. S. Lewis. March 5, 2019; ... Lewis was married to Joy Davidman, mother of Gresham and his brother David, and Davidman died in 1960 after a difficult bout with cancer. And field, and forest, as they were Resume them on her Easter Day. [30][31], The couple continued to live separately after the civil marriage. She was born in East Peoria on December 12, 1929 to Crofton and Mary Lee (Douglas) Gresham. [29], In 1956, Davidman's visitor's visa was not renewed by the Home Office, requiring that she and her sons return to America. William Gresham was the author of Nightmare Alley, the classic of American noir literature, while Joy Davidman was best known for her book Smoke on the Mountain, about the Ten Commandments. They had two sons, David Lindsay Gresham (born 27 March 1944) and Douglas Howard Gresham (born 10 November 1945). Douglas “Neil” Horton. When I contacted Joy’s son, Douglas Gresham, he put me in touch with a cousin, Susan Davidman Cleveland, Joy’s niece and the daughter of Joy’s only brother, Howard. Douglas Gresham (along with his brother, David) became the heir to C.S. He is played by Joseph Mazzello in the film directed by Richard Attenborough. Gresham sometimes had drunken outbursts, once smashing his guitar on a chair. Hooper never responded to the charges, but Lewis’s stepson Douglas Gresham came to Hooper’s defense, and a former student, Alistair Fowler, reported talking with … Lewis. The news from Dallas had stunned pupils during dinner at his boarding school in Surrey. [20], She returned home in January 1953, having received a letter from Gresham that he and her cousin were having an affair and he wanted a divorce. She spent Christmas and a fortnight at The Kilns with the brothers. "[5] When Gresham did return home, the couple began to look to religion for answers. She read H. G. Wells's The Outline of History at the age of eight and was able to play a score of Chopin on the piano, after having read it once and not looking at it again. [27] Other works that she influenced or helped with include Reflections on the Psalms (1958) and The Four Loves (1960). In April 1960, Lewis took Davidman on a holiday to Greece to fulfil her lifelong wish to visit there, but her condition worsened quickly upon return from the trip, and she died on 13 July 1960. Sylvia "Rose" WengerBRIMFIELD – Sylvia "Rose" Wenger, 90, of Brimfield, passed away on November 4, 2020. She first met him in August 1952, when she made a trip to the United Kingdom, after a two-year correspondence with him. [11][12] Between 1941 and 1943, she was employed as a book reviewer and poetry editor for The New Masses with publications in many of the issues. [5][16] Afterwards, she suffered from a defeated emotional state. [7], Douglas Gresham and his wife, Merrie, lived at Rathvinden House in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, before moving to their house in Malta in 2008. 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