Although C.S. Lewis didn’t get married until later in life, he spent a lot of time over the preceding decades thinking theologically about marriage and the general differences between men and women. We know about some of this thought process from his lengthy decades-long correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers (this friendship of Lewis and Sayers is the subject of Gina Dalfonzo’s excellent book, Dorothy and Jack). But also, these thoughts on gender permeate Lewis’s fiction—and this is the topic of Josh Herring’s new book, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis’s Images of Gender (Davenant Press, 2026).
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Nadya Williams
Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.
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