Your comments about Jadis are interesting. Lewis once said that he liked writing for children because of all he could leave out, in his case Romance and Sex. Strangely that puritanism allowed him to free his female characters of a lot of the bondage inflicted on women in stories. His characters are free to have adventures, be intrepid or self-serving and ambitious. They can desire power having no other desires. The way has been cleared for them.

Lucy was an extremely attractive heroine, who is allowed to do much of what a boy would do in another story. Jadis is a character who acts out of ambition and a desire for power. Both are free of the limitations inflicted on female charactersm, though Lucy is treated as a little girl through out.