by westsands410 » June 14th, 2006, 6:34 pm
Interesting idea, but the houses and professors referred to are probably not one and the same.
In LWW, the professor is an old man (unlike the youthful Ransom / Fisher-King), and the story is set during the Blitz years of World War II (c. 1940-1942), as the children are evacuated to escape the London bombs. THS, Lewis mentions in the Preface of the edition I have, although written c. 1943, is set shortly after the end of WWII - therefore nearer 1950. The professor of LWW is called Digory (as he is the same Digory as in The Magician's Nephew), and not Elwin Ransom / Fisher-King.
Perhaps the idea of the Wardrobe that might lead somewhere else, and the old house in the countryside stuck in Lewis' head? The similarities are certainly there!