“My own muddles are written over the earth and heaven, but I take refuge…” — Charles Williams

“My own muddles are written over the earth and heaven, but I take refuge in God and the Order, and hope, under the Mercy, to smile at them all in the end.”

Hope that disorder in a life may still be gathered up · Late letter to a friend

Charles Williams

About Charles Williams

20 September 1886–15 May 1945

On a crisp September morning in 1886, in the shabby-genteel precincts of Holloway, North London, Charles Walter Stansby Williams entered a world that would never quite know what to make of him. The only son of Richard Walter Stansby Williams and Mary Wall, young Charles was born into circumstances that trembled on the…

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