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Thinking Miss Ironwood is some sort of therapist, Jane noncommittally assents, but later has a psychological crisis and acquiesces to the request.

Dimble advises Jane to go see her friend Miss Ironwood, who lives in a manor at St. After some pleasantries and conversation, Mrs. Dimble, the former of whom was her tutor, who are being evicted from their house on account of the N.I.C.E.'s acquisition of land. It comes to light that they are purchasing a small piece of land from Bradgon Wood, a property long held by the College and believed to be the burial ground of the sorcerer Merlin from Arthurian myth. Feverstone offers him a position with N.I.C.E., a new, ambiguously purposed scientific institution that is planning to set up on a piece of land in Edgestow. Being a sociologist (and just plain insecure), Mark spends much of his time and energy observing the existence of social circles and trying to figure out how to make his way into an "inner ring." He initially talks casually with Curry, the sub-warden of Bracton, feeling the thrill of inclusion, before meeting Lord Feverstone (who is, in fact, Dick Devine, who had a significant role in Out of the Silent Planet) and sympathizing with him, suddenly finding Curry petty and tacky.

Meanwhile, Mark is on the way to his new fellowship at Bracton College (at the University of Edgestow). She notices the picture of the prisoner in the paper, and, rattled, heads out to investigate. The novel opens with Jane Studdock, wife of Mark, who has just had a strange dream about an old imprisoned man being decapitated, as well as the digging up of a long-sleeping but not-quite-dead man. That Hideous Strength differs from the previous two novels in many other respects as well, notably that the entire novel takes place on Earth. This installment instead follows Mark and Jane, a young married couple, as their drab and meaningless lives take rather dramatic turns. Elwin Ransom is not the novel's protagonist.

That Hideous Strength differs from Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra in that Dr. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.