Lucy Pevensie from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
was named for C. S. Lewis’ godchild Lucy Barfield. At the end of her life, rendered unable to
move or speak by multiple sclerosis, the real Lucy enjoyed listening to the
Narnia books as her younger brother Geoffrey read aloud. The first book is
dedicated to her: “Lucy Barfield, I wrote this story for you, but when I began
it, I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result, you are
already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you
will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy
tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell
me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to
understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C.
S. Lewis.”
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