Which C.S. Lewis novel features the character Jane Studdock?

That Hideous Strength features the character Jane Studdock.

Published in 1945, That Hideous Strength is the third novel of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Jane Studdock is a married academic who experiences disturbing dreams and becomes involved in events surrounding a sinister institution called the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, or NICE. Her husband, Mark Studdock, is drawn into the organization’s ambitions.

Unlike the first two trilogy novels, which focus more directly on other planets, this book is set mainly in England. Its plot combines university politics, social engineering, technological control, and supernatural conflict. Lewis presented the story as a warning about attempts to redesign humanity through power without moral restraint.

The novel’s title echoes a line from a sixteenth-century poem by David Lyndsay. Readers sometimes overlook Jane because the trilogy is often summarized through its male protagonist, Elwin Ransom. Jane’s perspective is central to the novel’s movement from skepticism and isolation toward moral awareness and participation.