Calling Inklings bloggers

I've found quite a number of blogs written by fans of the Inklings, the mid-20th century informal literary group that included C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and several others.

In spite of this, a search of Blogger profiles reveals only 14 who list the Inklings as one of their interests, and most of them don't have blogs, or their blogs are dead.

I've started an Inklings group at Groups.io, in the hope that it may be possible to bring at least some Inklings fans and bloggers together, and make it easier to find blogs and other web sitres that deal with the Inklings.

If you don't have a blog and don't want to have one, you can still join the Inklings discussion forum. There you can also, in the fashion of the Inklings, upload your own writing for others to read and discuss.

Here's a list of the members of the Inklings:

• Barfield, Owen 1898-1997
• Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter 1911-1981
• Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer 1899-1980
• Dundas-Grant, James Harold 1896-1985
• Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson 1896-1975
• Fox, Adam 1883-1977
• Hardie, Colin Graham 1906-1998
• Havard, Robert Emlyn 1901-1985
• Lewis, Clive Staples 1898-1963
• Lewis, Warren Hamilton 1895-1973
• Mathew, Anthony 1905-1976
• McCallum, Ronald Buchanan 1898-1973
• Stevens, Courtenay Edwards 1905-1976
• Tolkien, Christopher 1924-
• Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel 1892-1973
• Wain, John Barrington 1925-1994
• Williams, Charles Walter Stansby 1886-1945
• Wrenn, Charles Lesley 1895-1969

They met in Oxford, usually at C.S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, to read their writings to each other, and in some cases the comments and suggestions made at the meetings influenced the version that was eventually published.

So if you sometimes write blog posts about any of them, or about their writings, please consider joining the Inklings Group.

Here are a few blogs that post stuff about the Inklings, which I hope will join this group:

• The Inklings
• Iambic Admonit
• A Mule In The Chapter House
• A Spell for Refreshment of the Spirit

I'm sure there are more out there, so let's try to link them.