Abstract
The English author and lay theologian Charles Williams was an idiosyncratic, intriguing, perhaps intimidating subject. He was born in St. Albans near London in September 1886 and died in Oxford in May 1945. In that relatively brief life, his prodigious literary output encompassed virtually every form imaginable (novels, poetry, theology, critical reviews, plays, masques, detective story reviews, even a single short story). Elizabeth Wright (1962) commented on his “versatility and quantity” when describing “the size and scope of his published writings... Writing as he did in almost every form, he nevertheless maintained a consistency of theme that makes his work all of a piece...” (p.16).
The purpose of this study is to locate, explore, and document key primary and secondary resources related to the early-20th century British writer Charles Williams in collections based in the United Kingdom.
Recommended Citation
Waters, Clay
(2018)
"“Eminently Combustible” -- Charles Williams, the Most Interesting Inkling,"
SLIS Connecting: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
DOI: 10.18785/slis.0701.11
Available at:
https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol7/iss1/11
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