| Lucy Pevensie | |
|---|---|
| Narnia character | |
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| First appearance | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) |
| Last appearance | The Last Battle (1956) |
| Created by | C. S. Lewis |
| In-universe information | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Title | Queen Lucy the Valiant |
| Family | Mr and Mrs Pevensie (parents); Peter, Susan and Edmund Pevensie (siblings); Eustace Scrubb (cousin) |
| Nationality | English |
Lucy Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. She is the youngest of the four Pevensie children, and the first to find the Wardrobe entrance to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Of all the Pevensie children, Lucy is the closest to Aslan. Also, of all the humans who have visited Narnia, Lucy is perhaps the one that believes in Narnia the most. She is ultimately crowned Queen Lucy the Valiant, co-ruler of Narnia along with her two brothers and her sister. Lucy is the central character of the four siblings in the novels. Lucy is a principal character in three of the seven books (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), and a minor character in two others (The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle).
The character of Lucy Pevensie was inspired by June Flewett,[1] a devout Catholic London girl evacuated by her convent to The Kilns, Lewis' country home in 1942,[2] and named after Lewis' goddaughter Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Lucy is described in the book as being fair-haired: "But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant."[3]
Lucy was the most faithful of the four and the closest to Aslan, and never stopped believing in Narnia. She and her brothers Peter and Edmund, after dying in a train crash in England, were transported to Aslan's Country with the other Narnians.
- ^ The Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2005.
- ^ Wilson, A.N. (2002). C.S.Lewis: A Biography. London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32340-5.
- ^ Lewis, C.S. "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", p. 201