Married the same woman twice
One of the interesting facts about C.S.Lewis is he married the same woman twice. Lewis also communicated with Joy Davidman Gresham, an American author of Jewish heritage who had formerly been a Communist and had turned to Christianity. She moved to England with her two kids, David and Douglas, after being divorced from her drunken and violent husband, author William L. Gresham. Lewis first saw her as a pleasant intellectual companion and friend. A strong friendship, which later developed into love was born out of charity and it was on this basis that he consented to enter into a formal marriage contract with her to allow her to remain in the UK. The couple was hitched in 1956.
He remarried her on March 21, 1957, in Churchill Hospital, little than a year after their first marriage, when it was anticipated that she would soon pass away from cancer. So why do it once more? It was also because he wanted to confess his love for her in front of others because few people truly knew about the first wedding. "Thou hast preserved the fine wine till now," he wrote to one acquaintance shortly after their wedding, "it's weird having at 59 the type of bliss most men had in their twenties." Thus, Lewis suffered a great loss as a result of her passing, just like he did with his mother. He addressed the sadness, rage, and uncertainty that followed over the following several years in his essay A Grief Observed.
