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Lewis had first had the idea to write a book for children in 1939.

C. S. Lewis: The Creator of Narnia - A Convert to Christianity

At this time, many children were evacuated from England's major cities and sent to live in the countryside because of the threat of bombing during World War II. Lewis had opened his home, The Kilns, to some of these young refugees, one of whom had been fascinated by a wardrobe there, imagining that there was another way out of it through the other side.

This image struck a chord with Lewis, who had first read about a magic wardrobe as a boy, in The Aunt and Anabel by Edith Nesbit.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lewis completed his story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in 1948. In it, four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—go to stay with a reclusive old professor in a mysterious country house.

While playing a game, Lucy, the youngest, hides in a wardrobe and discovers that it leads to a magical world called Narnia. This land, which is inhabited by talking animals, Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. - DOJ