Susan Pevensie opinion on Susan's place in the Narnia books. Since the publication of Gaiman's story, "the problem of Susan" has become used more widely as a catchphrase for the literary and feminist investigation into Susan's treatment. Authors J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, both of whom were influenced by Lewis, have also commented on the issue: Susan Pevensie Susan Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. Susan is the elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She appears in three of the seven books—as a child in "The Lion, the Witch and the
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe popular English folklore. There are several parallels between the White Witch and the immortal white queen, Ayesha, of H. Rider Haggard's "She", a novel greatly admired by C. S. Lewis. "The Story of the Amulet" written by Edith Nesbit also contains scenes that can be considered precursors to sequences presenting Jadis, particularly in "The Magician's Nephew". Nesbit's short story "The Aunt and Amabel" includes the motif of a girl entering a wardrobe to gain access to a magical place. The freeing of Aslan's body from the stone table by field mice is reminiscent of Aesop's fable of "The Lion and