The mystery of Lewis Carroll : discovering the whimsical, thoughtful and sometimes lonely man who created Alice in Wonderland / Jenny Woolf ; [foreword by Edward Wakeling].
Woolf, Jenny.
2010
PR4612 .W66 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The mystery of Lewis Carroll : discovering the whimsical, thoughtful and sometimes lonely man who created Alice in Wonderland / Jenny Woolf ; [foreword by Edward Wakeling].
Author Woolf, Jenny.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780312612986
0312612982
Imprint New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Language English
Description x, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PR4612 .W66 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 828/.809 B
921
Summary A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"My father and mother were honest though poor
" : family
"You can do arithmetic, I trust?" : Oxford life
"Nose in the middle, mouth under" : the human body
"This strange wild man from other lands" : love and sex
"Children are three-fourths of my life" : children
"Child of the pure unclouded brow" : Alice
"That awful mystery" : religion and the supernatural
"And would you be a poet?" : literature and storytelling
"
the camera of rosewood" : photography
"He offered large discount, he offered a cheque" : money
Appendix. Report of Dr Yvonne Hart on Carroll's neurological symptoms.

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